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Maybe propublica? I think there are areas of gray and there are areas that are clear, and we can respect the former and take action on the latter without putting on joker makeup and descending into sophomoric relativism about the fundamental impossibility of ever knowing "the truth."

This is completely all over the map, so I'm dismissing most of this as unresponsive and returning to the original point: I don't think bringing USSR's history in the 20th century is as pertinent or helpful to understanding the relative influence of Nazism in the armed forces in the Ukraine in 2022, I think OPs characterization relied on analysis more proximate to the present day and more directly related to social forces that speak to what is happening there.

You're now throwing a whole lot of unrelated stuff at the wall all at once talking about things independent of that comparison: saying there's "formalized" representation in the Ukraine army, bringing up how it's a "whitewashing" and how OP is disingenuous etc. etc.

I'll just note that these versions of reality don't align with what I've seen in western media(TM), which have noted that those arguments appear to be emphasized out of proportion to their significance, and the backdrop that these arguments are occurring in, is one where they are functioning as a propaganda role in justifying intrusion in Ukraine, and have largely been dismissed by sources I follow that have commented to the NYT and NPR.

I suspect you're just going to that that argue that characterization as western lies, and demand elaborate, point-by-point thousand word explanations, and insist that failing to engage with you in such a manner means I'm scared or whatever. I'm just gonna roll my eyes and move on with my day. That's gonna be the process in disputing anything: I'll make one point, and the subject will expand to cover a dozen new things.

The point here is that the history of USSR in the 20th century isn't as relevant to the convo as you were trying to suggest it was.

historically the main protagonists against Nazism.

That zooms out so far from the specifics of the Ukraine/Russia comparison as to relocate this whole conversation to a different context, totally unrelated to the conflict that this thread is intending to speak to.

It's true that USSR expended lives and resources at tremendous scales to fight Nazis, and it's true that nazis and nationalists are attracted to military and exist in present day Russian and Ukranian armies. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, and the historical record of the 20th century is too remote to offer any meaningful clarification.

At best it just invites you to make indirect, speculative inferences. We have much better, more current reporting we can and should rely on.

I think, as OP pointed out, it's inherently the case that these elements are disproportionately attracted to armed forces, and that in and of itself is adequate to explain their presence in the army of any nation with cultural exposure to nazism.

That's a diagnosis that's relevant to nazism as present day social phenomena, and more pertinent to the conflict than the historical record you are choosing to substitute in it's place.

wonder if that AI was trained on anything in particular

I think this is an excellent idea, a worthy project, and I applaud you for putting some real thinking into practical steps!

My federated X wishlist had social media, reddit-like thing, instagram-like thing, and a youtube-like thing. A federated IMDB alternative would be awesome.

Awesome, thanks. I'm sure I'll pare down the stuff that isn't of interest for me.

If it were up to me, like 90% of the internet would be people sharing the swaths of obscure content they've found and/or curated. Well maybe not 90%, but stuff like RSS feeds and finding obscure creators. And there's be more interest in sharing at the level of OPMLs and open directories, and huge lists of stuff.

Perhaps you could share an OPML? Sounds like a wave of deep dives into a bunch of different things, and I'd much rather shamelessly profit off of someone else's effort than put in the work myself!