Is World War 2 a myth?
How literally can we take the basic narrative of the German people electing mass-murdering occultists, the bizarre decisions of whose leader, Hitler, to fight a war on two fronts gets Europe divided between rival political blocs led by the United States and Russia?
First, America doesn't even enter the story of the Western front until it's half over. Until then, the heroes are Church Hill of Britain and Charles de Gaulle of France. And not only is "Gaul" the ancient name of France, but "Charles" descends from "Carl", the common Germanic term for "man." Should we not be skeptical of such an allegorical name? The same goes for Britain's Prime Minister Church Hill. Arranging the narrative so someone of that name is the hero looks like a blatant attempt by Christians to take credit for a conflict whose factual beneficiary was the secular United States.
Yes, I posit that the United States was the factual beneficiary of whatever real conflict lies behind the narrative. Because while all Russian and some Western versions of the story make Russia mainly responsible for defeating Hitler, there are two problems with this. First, the leader in question has yet another mythic name, "Stalin", meaning "Man of Steel." This is an epithet of the fictional hero Superman. Were the Russians who claimed credit just punning on the "superman / subhuman" ideology associated with the defeated Hitler? Second, all versions of the war start with the Germans attacking Poland, and the Man of Steel's bloc only assumes a heroic role in the winter that the United States entered the war, when the evil and stupid Hitler breaks a non-aggression pact (and why was heroic Russia making pacts with someone so evil?) shortly before the harsh Russian winter. And the hegemony established by the Russian army over half of Germany and all points east conveniently disappears from history 45 years later, leaving the United States with sole hegemony.
So what facts are we left with once the mythic heroes with their allegorical names are cleared away? A war between Hitler's Germany and Eisehower's America, using the former's invasion of Poland as a cassus belli, that established the latter's world hegemony. And while there's no reason to doubt that Hitler was a real person with really inferior military leadership, the ideology attributed to his regime is conveniently the exact opposite of everything America stood for.
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
The actual historical events are, of course, messier. And it's probably callous of me to say that it makes a fine tale. But it does
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
>Killed by humans.
You can't have it both ways
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Bacteria Mage.