https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/opinion/china-underground-historians.html
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https://archive.is/G47I6>
| They decided to publish a journal. The students called it Spark, after
| a Chinese expression, "xinghuo liaoyuan," or "a single spark can start
| a prairie fire."
The "xinghuo liaoyuan" expression is this: 星火燎原. Chinese Russian tutorial <
https://is.gd/e0QWWk> gives it <
https://archive.is/1Yss2> as an equivalent to a Russian idiom, which was a motto of one of the very first Lenin's socialist-revolutionary newspapers <
https://tinyurl.com/22p67z7p>
I do not know whether the Chinese 星火燎原 is a loan translation or it was originated independently, but it's not the point. The point is that since
the early 20 century the expression of this meaning was among the popular mottoes among various pro-socialist/communist groups in the world.
One more fact the American populace aren't supposed to know is that most
of the opposition/underground groups that emerged in the early stages of
the USSR or China were not "anti-communist", but they sought to criticize government policies from some positions of "true" or "proper" communism / socialism. The NYT article of course slyly misses this fact.
| Around the world, history has become a battleground for the present.
The American media, education is the most malignant distorter of history.
| the great writers or filmmakers of the Cold War — people like Aleksandr
| Solzhenitsyn, Milan Kundera and Milos Forman .. These giants of Eastern
| Bloc intellectual life ..
As soon as Alexander Solzhenitsyn is mentioned as "giant of intellectual
life", it's appropriate to remind that he always - as in the 1970s in
the emigration as in the 1990s and later, in post-Soviet Russia - firmly insisted that Russia and the Ukraine have no way other that to be inter-
linked closely. Alexander Solzhenitsyn used to present himself as a man
of "mixed Russian-Ukrainian descent". He stated that the border between
Russia and the Ukraine was set by the Soviet designers incorrectly.
He saw the Khrushchev's decision to append Crimea to Soviet Ukraine as a
crazy quirk. He predicted that the west-Ukrainian nationalism will turn
out highly destructive. Also, he said that the false idea of an allegedly independent Ukraine's history since an ancient time is a myth, while the
fact is that the Ukraine is a product of Polish colonization of a part of
early Russia. And, already in the 1990s, Solzhenitsyn noted that it's
visible that the US is seeking to hostilely play the Ukraine card against Russia through support for extremist groups within the Ukraine.
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