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Whatever you want to call it, coup, rebellion, whatever, it seems clear that this event will provide a Dolchstoß explanation for the loss of the Ukraine war tha
by gumby 3y ago
Whatever you want to call it, coup, rebellion, whatever, it seems clear that this event will provide a Dolchstoß explanation for the loss of the Ukraine war that will be used to keep revanchist militarism alive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
- surfsvammel 3y agoInteresting. Something no one (at least in Swedish media) is talking about. But how would that in anyway help Putin?
- dboreham 3y agoWar would have been won if not for stab in the back. Same as Germany post-ww1 rise of Nazis.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoThat won't help Putin, though (probably). He's probably fatally weakened by all this, as the Kaiser didn't remain in power past the end of WWI. What it will do is provide nationalistic fodder for the next nationalistic firebrand in 20 years.
- playingalong 3y agoIt wouldn't help Putin to win. It only helps to keep his face and spirit up in case he loses.
- 082349872349872 3y agoThere is a TASS article from yesterday where the FSB, in english translation, literally said "stab in the back". Unfortunately swapping languages from an article doesn't get the original, so I have no idea what the idiom may be in russian.
- culebron21 3y agoAs a native Russian speaker, can assue you it is exacly the same thing.
- 082349872349872 3y agoTIL « нож в спину » thanks! eg https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-66007068 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-66007068
- thriftwy 3y agoThere is an enormous pule of Dolchstoß explanations already collected to be used on as per needed basis. The events of today are adding to it but far from dwarfing it.
- meghan_rain 3y agowhat else is there? nato weapon delivery?
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoNo, that would be stab in the front. I presume they mean stuff like not enough ammunition, no air support, and so on.
- Claude_Shannon 3y agoThat being said stab in the back doesn't involve antisemitism in Slavic languages. I have the same idiom in Polish, and it's just an idiom for betrayal.
- f1refly 3y agoIt's also a common idiom in the German language, but in a different form: The Dolchstoß is associated with WWI and antisemitic ideas, while in den Rücken fallen (literally to fall into someone's back) is the linguistic backstab figure.