-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 05:18, Michael Dominok wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 09:43 +0000 schrieb Liam O'Toole: >> On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:14:38 +0100 >> Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 09:02 +0000 schrieb Liam O'Toole: >> [...] >> >>>> I see plenty of linguistic diversity in Europe. Or are you >>>> referring to this newsgroup? >>> Well, if you're talking about languages literally you're above >>> statement is nonsens. There was "plenty of linguistic diversity" in >>> the USSR or the Third Reich. >> Not at all. Both the Nazis and the Soviets went to great lengths to >> Germanise or Russify the areas they acquired or inherited, >> brutally suppressing other languages and cultures in the process. > > Puh. Two different approaches. The Nazis wanted "colonies in the east" > for their masterrace to proliferate so they set up a german > administration using german terms and names for cities, rivers ... > They didn't care what their "slavonic slaves" spoke. As long as they > understood when they had to pull the plow and when to stop. > I totally agree with you about suppression of culture. But since the > suppression of the slavonic languages wasn't the prime target i would > speak of a "walk-by-suppression" (of language). > Anyway, nothing like this happened in the west, the south or the north. > Neither Amsterdam, Paris, Tripolis, Copenhagen nor Oslo got germanized > names. > So, concerning nazi-germany 3/4 of your statement is wrong. > > My knowledge of soviet-history isn't that good but IMHO there was "only" > a small period of time, during Stalins earlier years, when the > relocations of many ethnic groups (That's what i think you're probably > refering too) took place. > And looking at how easily the remnants of the USSR regained their > national identities i doubt that it was official soviet policy to > suppress their languages and cultures - simply because they would > probably have succeeded. If you take into account the amount of time > (about 3 generations) and the means they had it seems a rather easy job. > Especially if you look at what the Nazis did to Germany in such a few > years.
Actually, quite a number of the former Socialist Republics *are* having troubles because so many ethnic Russians were moved in during the Soviet era. > >> Why do you think the world remembers the horrors of Auschwitz, rather than >> Oswiecim? > > Because they remember the horrors of a german concentration-camp named > Auschwitz-Birkenau and not the small polish village Oswiecim nearby > (Named Auschwitz during Nazi occupation) where (i guess) no horrors took > place? > > Cheers > > Michael > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF7qv9S9HxQb37XmcRAv5aAJ400ybDLlOXLe2My9Jdv7/z9NfSBwCgyTyL IifT8NFAXeWuYOi3h6aIips= =4uzr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
