I have spent some days deep in the rabbit hole of reading the stories of the communist in my country from the beginning of the 1900s up to WW2 and the way they were treated. About all the things that actually happened here that I was never taught in school. Horrible violence.
And I am just so angry. And feel deeply betrayed. And somehow soiled. I have cheered on the war veterans and heroes due to my f’n programming in the past. I have shat on those who this fascist regime left behind on purpose after being fed literal lies about my own history. Pretty sure the other half of my family has literally taken part in the fascicst project here and they always played the victim.
And I have lost the opportunity to listen to my other grandfather who was Red, to really talk to him, ask questions and understand. He is long dead now, when he was still here I probably wouldn’t have listened and maybe he was too scared to ever really talk about all that really happened in his lifetime.
I am just angry. And sad. We were absolutely on the wrong side of history and turned it into pride, it’s disgusting.
And if I try to mention any of this to the brainwormed people around me they look the other way or roll their eyes. And at the same time spend incredible amounts of time and energy at being outraged with the right-wing government while at the same time advancing Othering and cheering on war. It is literally the same path we were on in the 1930s.
How has an entire country been able to whitewash its own history so completely that almost nobody in it no longer understands what is going on? How has the capitalist class been this succesfull at this.
Just a rant, not going to fall into despair, but boy am I just angry.
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Had some crappy history teachers myself, one trying to “both sides” the Continuation War. Still better than one of my friend’s, their history class taught the age old gaslighting that the Soviet Union started it!
Another dude, who acted more like a drill instructor than a teacher, had a lot of focus on how evil Stalin was, but I thankfully(?) don’t remember how full of poo those lessons were…
I fucking hate teachers, and one of the reasons is that the teachers of history in my school were all more or less publicly right-wing wankers. Not all teachers are cops, but all teachers are bastards.
Comrade PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCALTS is a teacher I believe so not all teachers are bad
I think chief poster @[email protected] is a teacher as well
I try to teach whatever I can that isn’t the standardized test bullshit avalanche, but that window of opportunity narrows year after year.
I still have hope in these kids. People my age and older tend to fucking suck so I have to hope.
Yeah, I know, had an angry drunk moment there. My apologies to all teacher comrades.
