By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/06/2026She understands why these people are this way - but she can also see, with perfect hindsight, the ghastly horrors that followed, which swamp any matter of principle these people might have stood on. 46/ 1131 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/06/2026There's plenty of this sympathetic pitilessness to go around, and it's not just the Bund or Jews who come in for it. 47/ 1100 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/06/2026Every factionalist blunder in pre-Revolutionary Russia, in the Soviet Union, in interwar Poland, and in occupied Poland comes in for examination - as do every imprisonment, maiming, rape and death that these blunders opened the door to. 48/ 1100 0
