Memory serves one purpose--to make better decisions for the future. Our mental storehouse of skills and knowledge guides our work. Our personal memories guide our relationships and give us meaning to our lives. When we forget, we lose tools. We can't understand what is going on. We can't see it coming:
We have forgotten the good reasons we fought the Cold War with the USSR. We need to remember. The reasons are relevant and useful today.
If you don't know why, this book, The Dark Side of the Moon, describes why.
What the USSR did in Poland in 1939-41 is analogous to what modern Russia is doing in Ukraine today. If we blink, Russia will do the same in the rest of Europe.
The Dark Side of the Moon is what we win, if Russia wins. We can't forget the history, and lessons of the Polish experience.
I'd like to think the Western politicians that praise Putin are simply ignorant. Their teachers forgot, and never taught them. If they knew, they would enforce a new Cold War. If they know, and embrace what Putin wants, god help us all.
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