(CNN) -- Nobody looks to Olympic opening ceremonies for historical - TopicsExpress



          

(CNN) -- Nobody looks to Olympic opening ceremonies for historical exactitude. Yet the brutal denialism of the opening spectacle at the 2014 Sochi Games should anger and sadden every viewer -- and Russian viewers most of all. The struggle of freedom against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting. So wrote the great Czech novelist Milan Kundera. In Russia, forgetting has won. These Olympics opened with a pageant of Russian history that excised the crimes of Soviet Communism. No Red Terror. No Gulag. No Ukrainian famine. No Katyn.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:19:12 +0000

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