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“The popular image of NKVD is mostly untrue; in reality most of their victims have not been brutally murdered”. I’m sorry, but this is just Christian whitewash

• gattilorenz 4y ago
  Ok, let's reverse it: most "courts" in medieval/renaissance times were at least as brutal (but possibly more) as the inquisition*. This is purely based on (non-Christian) historians' views, not mine. See for example [1,2] So I guess we can say that "the popular image that the medieval/renaissance trials is mostly untrue", then? I assumed not everyone knew/thought that these two things were mostly on par, but maybe it's just my ignorance. For sure I met people that thought that Galileo was burned at the stake, or at least tortured, when neither of that has happened. Were the other secret police services as brutally murderous as the NKVD? Maybe yes, then I'd argue that the popular image of the other secret police services are mostly untrue. Funny enough, you named this "Christian whitewashing" but historically the violence of the Inquisition was also exaggerated by protestants, who are also Christians, so... a case of Christian blackwashing? :) * as the comment from Bayart points out, I was referring (like the OP) to the medieval/Roman Inquisition, which is a different entity from the Spanish one [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Inquisition#Torture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Inquisition#Torture [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Inquisition#Historiography_and_witchcraft_accusations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Inquisition#Historiograp...