Pozor Rossii and Western anti-Russian sentiments

Wed Jan 21 06:57:07 UTC 2009

Here is another possible reference:

David S. Foglesong. The American Mission and the “Evil Empire.” The Crusade for a “Free Russia” since 1881. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo: Cambridge University Press, 2007.  352 pp.

Regards,
Tatyana 

21.01.09, 05:08, RYLKOVA:

> While everybody is free to love or hate Russia, this discussion 
> seems to lead nowhere. I think it is worth looking at some books, 
> like "Distorted
> Mirrors: Americans and Their Relations with Russia and China in 
> the
> Twentieth Century" by Donald Davis and Eugene Trani forthcoming in 
> the U of Missouri Press, the review of which was kindly mentioned 
> by Andrey Shcherbenok today:
> http://www.izvestia.ru/comment/article3124292/
> This book might provide a point of departure for some, or the 
> final destination for others.
> Otherwise we will continue piling up emotionally charged 
> accusations that really mean nothing.
> Galina Rylkova
> On Tue Jan 20 20:54:41 EST 2009, Anyse Joslin <anyse1 at MAC.COM> 
> wrote:
> > Alina, you force me to write!
> > 
> > At a time when the US sees itself as the "policeman" of the word, 
> >  shoving "democracy" down the throats of those who have their own 
> >  "form" of democracy that the US is unable to accept. This 
> > chauvinist  attitude has come to the point of breaking 
> > international law by  "breaking the peace" in the world with a 
> > preemptory strike on a nation  so small that it should NEVER be 
> > seen as less than a "war crime."  Personally, in the current 
> > state of our democracy, I would not want a  "mini-ME" democracy 
> > modeled after it anywhere in the world. THe US  uses its 
> > apologies to continue its own gunboat diplomacy that has  grown 
> > worse and even more worse since the US involvement in the  
> > Philippines in the very early twentieth century under the 
> > Presidency  of Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1901). We have taken no 
> > lessons from ANY  act tas an agressor in which this country has 
> > participated since.  Also, to make matters worse, the 
> > "efficiency" of US weapons has risen  so "high" that the actual 
> > collateral damage in terms of civilian  casualties as the result 
> > of US attacks has gone from only 5% in WWI to  95% today. So, for 
> > every civilian killed in WWI, 19 soldiers died.  Today, for every 
> > 19 civilian casualties in Iraq, one soldier has died.  How can 
> > anyone find ANY preference of this to any other set of  
> > behaviors? Now, the US is actually a WAR ECONOMY and no longer  
> > concentrates on producing consumer goods or any of the 
> > manufacturing  needed to keep and to maintain any economic 
> > advantage in the world. I  will not go any further on the US role 
> > in the "killing fields" of  Cambodia and too many others to even 
> > mention here.
> > 
> > Anyse
> > 
> > 
> > On Jan 20, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Alina Israeli wrote:
> > 
> > The animosity towards Russia wherever and whenever it existed is 
> > based  solely on the struggle for world domination. While China 
> > quietly grew  its ranks and tried not to starve, Russia 
> > disregarding starvation  waged proxy wars first in Asia, then in 
> > Africa and Latin America.  There were organizations (maybe they 
> > still exist) that were in charge  of the insurgent movements in 
> > the Mediterranean, Latin America,  possibly elsewhere, I know of 
> > the those two first hand.
> > 
> > It's also well known now that there were training camps for  
> > Palestinian terrorists on the territory of Eastern block 
> > countries.  And it was the Soviet Union that was behind the 
> > blockade of West Berlin.
> > 
> > While of course the Western attitude towards Russia should be 
> > studied,  what I find most amazing is the siege mentality which 
> > is pervasive in  Russian social discourse. Take this Leontiev 
> > series: http://kbiho.ru/load/14-1-0-3896   ??? the West has been 
> > preoccupied from early 1800 with only one thing:  prevention of 
> > Russia's expansion in Asia and elsewhere; hindrance of  Russian 
> > interests is the sole purpose of Western politics. When such  
> > historic programs are made in the West, their main point is 
> > national  soul searching and national MEA CULPA towards the 
> > former colonies.  This is not the case with Leontiev films (and 
> > he is not alone). The  underlying leitmotif is "the Russians are 
> > coming and it's a good thing  but the West is holding us back".
> > 
> > 
> > On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Francoise Rosset wrote:
> > 
> >> I agree with Anyse Joslin and Andrei Shcherbenok, if I 
> >> understood  them correctly, that there is a special and 
> >> sometimes inexplicable  animosity towards Russia. As a Slavist 
> >> and a professor of Russian,  it always infuriated me that the 
> >> USSR was singled out for special  opprobium while we turned a 
> >> relatively blind eye to the Chinese  communists -- "inscrutable" 
> >> they were/are, so I guess that absolved  us from looking too 
> >> closely.
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > Alina Israeli
> > LFS, American University
> > 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
> > Washington DC. 20016
> > (202) 885-2387 	
> > fax (202) 885-1076
> > aisrael at american.edu
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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