sexta-feira, 6 de maio de 2022

How will the war in Ukraine pass into posterity?

Roberto da Silva Rocha, university professor and political scientist
How will the war in Ukraine pass into posterity?
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Again, again, the problem of Historical Criticism.

The official history always makes a simplification of the accounts of the facts where many things are left out of the books of General History for several reasons, one of them would be the objectivity, because a complete account of all the facts of the Second World War would be boring and interminable; second, the war losers have no place to speak, that is, their facts and perspectives are never considered.
 Thirdly, narratives have always been shaped and formatted in the evaluation of moral value judgments that lead to the sophistry of the begging-in fallacy, whose end of the Second World War determines the beginning and end of the narrative as if the facts were teleological. , that is, everything begins and ends in the vision of the goals of the victors, in the case of the second world war, the end of the Third Reich is a victory of justice against tyranny, just to argue, if Hitler had won the second world war or had made an agreement ending the war to freeze their territorial conquests, certainly we would have other narratives.

The narrative of the communists' victory told in China reveals the triumph of planning and economic planning and the struggle of the urban and peasant working class as a result of their superior model in the distribution of social justice and harmony of the economic system.

A vision that opposes the Western world that sees China as an artificial and anomalous system that uses the resources of the Western system for its economic survival.

This narrative war has been going on forever, from the Romans who were free to record their History and the History of their neighbors like the Jews and Christians, with Josephus and other official narrators, from the time of the Babylonians, Etruscans, Hebrews their scribes recorded a particular version of History mixing myths, beliefs, philosophy, and the result is that the archeological scholars of History try to cross the information looking for coincidences of independent and contemporary narrators looking for the only way to confirm the narratives, which in fact these versions spread precisely because they are told and repeated by oral tradition, and what would be the proof is actually the same source of narratives.

Only in the year 1948 the US scholars made official the discovery of the first flight of an aircraft as being made by the Wright brothers even without documentary evidence, only based on testimonies, unlike the public flight and documented and witnessed with photos of cameras and films, this flight can be reproduced with the same technology, unlike the American brothers whose aircraft can never be reproduced successfully because it does not have the currently accepted aeronautical specifications, it was 100 kg heavier and had 40 horsepower less than the engine of the 14 Bis the plane that Santos Dumont made its first flight, not even NASA can fly a replica of the Wright brothers' Eagle, just to argue that history is becoming just one narrative among so many thousands of possibilities.

The day of the Allied victory is celebrated in the West as the day of the landing on the sands of the Normandy beaches in France as the 6/6/1944 just when the Nazi Germans had not yet ended the war that took place on 5/1/1945. at Stalin's request that the day of Nazi defeat coincide with the most important date of communism, Labor Day, this fact never recognized as the day of victory by the USA and the West.

If we continue to preserve this addiction to narrative disputes, we will never know where the Covid19 epidemic began, we will never know who discovered the AIDS virus, whether the Pasteur Institute in Paris, or the Gallup Institute in New York, these narrative disputes have millions of interpretations. about the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin that started the war in Vietnam, or the missile crisis in Cuba in 1962, and the war in Ukraine is being told as a daydream of Putin who woke up one day in a bad mood and with all his malice invaded Ukraine on February 24th and all the West protested against the killings against a fragile country that according to CNN and BBC was defeating Russia every day, and at the same time being massacred and turned to rubble by the savage bombers, but the people valiant was winning the war with men between the ages of 18 and 60 banned from leaving the country, when 3 million Ukrainians were abandoning their homes and everything they had for back.

When the war is over, Ukraine can be rebuilt and celebrate its victory over an intact Russia defeated according to the triumphant narratives of Facebook, Instagram, and other media that forbid us to tell another version.
other than triumphalism and the unanimous condemnation of the tragedy in Ukraine and Russian aggression.
 
After Noah's Ark, the Crossing of the Red Sea, the Garden of Eden, the Trumpets of Jericho, the French Revolution, nothing else can be considered a lie or a truth in History.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político

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