marathon@thelemmy.club to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agoRussia releases archives exposing Latvian Waffen-SS atrocities in WWIIwww.rt.comexternal-linkmessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down121file-text
arrow-up195arrow-down1external-linkRussia releases archives exposing Latvian Waffen-SS atrocities in WWIIwww.rt.commarathon@thelemmy.club to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square139fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 hours agoPlease work on your reading comprehension. Also, you literally said they are your first thoughts
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-24 hours agoI meant first thoughts about Russia bringing it up. My first thought about the atrocities happened a long time ago, when I first heard about them.
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoRussia didn’t “bring it up”, they released the documents from their archives. So no, you didn’t hear about them long ago.
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-24 hours agoNothing they’re bringing up is news, though. It’s just further details about stuff we already knew about. I’m sure historians will value the documents but it’s not like we didn’t know about that they did horrible shit before.
Please work on your reading comprehension.
Also, you literally said they are your first thoughts
I meant first thoughts about Russia bringing it up. My first thought about the atrocities happened a long time ago, when I first heard about them.
Russia didn’t “bring it up”, they released the documents from their archives. So no, you didn’t hear about them long ago.
Nothing they’re bringing up is news, though. It’s just further details about stuff we already knew about. I’m sure historians will value the documents but it’s not like we didn’t know about that they did horrible shit before.