Tragic Disappointment At Nürnberg

I just watched the Soviet version of the Nürnberg trials documentary. While the horrors of the NAZI crimes cannot be validly disputed, and they were absolutely ghastly, the spin put on it all by the soviet producers cannot be taken seriously as anything other than disingenuous political posturing.

The hypocrisy of the Soviets, especially in the face of Stalin's murder of tens of millions of what were putatively his own people, was and remains rank and utterly repugnant, not to mention blatantly obvious. The Soviets were and remain as matters of historical fact, among the most hideous and pathetically transparent political actors ever to befoul God’s half-acre. To hear the words of derisive condemnation issuing from the soviet interests was a joke whose irony proved absurdly impossible, not to mention risibly puerile.

The NAZIs were rotten bastards, but the Soviets also butchered in numbers that rivaled — and by some credible reckonings exceeded — those of the Nazis.

What astonishes me in terms of the seemingly infinite human capacity to meekly tolerate every manner of rank evil that rampages across the face of the earth, is that in the wake of these indescribable horrors, all of which have been documented courtesy of the blessings of modern event recording technologies, the people of the world remain as degraded degenerates whose evil fault lies precisely in their indolent and cowardly tolerance. They make of themselves little creatures of the most despicable cowardliness imaginable, instead of standing tall and courageous in the face of ever more direct tyranny.

The average man at his rare best is found willing to speak as the weak-wrist milquetoast against such horrific tyranny, yet will do nothing of substance to counter it. Nay, he in fact remains meek and cowardly, accepting and obeying every rotten fiat shoved under his nose by men unfit to clean their toilets; and for what? For the sake of not rocking the boat; of his fear of losing what little the tyrant has for the nonce allowed him to retain.

Taken uncritically, the Nürnberg trials seemed as a bright spot of hope for humanity at that time where the rot and filth of the NAZI butchers was laid bare, the perpetrators held to account. It seemed a new standard had been laid down for holding tyrants accountable for their acts of violation against the God-given rights of all men.

But alas, the hindsight of the last eighty years has shown in no uncertain terms that in spite of the initial appearances, the trials at Nürnberg were nothing better than yet another example of obvious revanchism dressed in the false garb of proper justice and a new direction for humanity in the common man's relationship to his so-called "government". The interceding eighty years have witnessed monotonically increasing levels of "government" overreach and monotonically decreasing accountability, all the while the people remaining timid servants to those who were ironically set in place under the putative assumption of serving those over whom they now presume to lord.

What a tragic disappointment it has all been. Be well, and until next time, please accept my best wishes.