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"intelligentsia" is not intelectuals, it just means secret police . I doubt Einstein was a member of the KGB or would even entertain that thought. Intellectual
by adriancr 3y ago
"intelligentsia" is not intelectuals, it just means secret police . I doubt Einstein was a member of the KGB or would even entertain that thought.
Intellectuals were also murdered first / sent to hard labour to die, sent to political prisons, etc. (check out what Mao did or Stalin, khmer rouge, or any other communist regime)
They were replaced by random poeople off the street based on their perceived loyalty to communism.
In occupied countries russia basically put in russians at first to clean up everything / murder anyone they want.
So you are wrong here.
- azangru 3y ago> "intelligentsia" is not intelectuals, it just means secret police . There are dictionaries online, you know? You could even type "define intelligentsia" into the Google search box, and get a decent answer.
- adriancr 3y agoHe made a bold statement: > The largest genocides of that period have been orchestrated by communist countries, supported by a lot if not most of of the intelligentsia First part is that Intelligentsia means intellectuals, which in russia after 1917 it did not. Google has issues with doublethink but you can find on wikiedia what they did to intellectuals and what they redefined the term to. It also does not cove the fact that it is equivalent to intelligence services but not the same. Second part is that Intelligentsia made genocides, which is ambigous, which intelligentsia? (the KGB?, if so, yes but they were not intellectuals, or the intellectuals?, if so, how?, they were all dead or not in power) Third part is that Einstein belonged to that which is even bolder illogical statement... He was not russian, not a part of the KGB, had no power or involvement.
- azangru 3y ago> You have made a bold statement Not me, sorry :-)
- adriancr 3y agoOh, sorry, corrected :)
- cm2187 3y agoIt was me, and on the topic of english, I think you may confuse "perpetrated" and "supported". I am not arguing that Einstein perpetrated a genocide and I think even some automatic translation wouldn't distord my sentence that badly.
- adriancr 3y agoAllright, my comments still stand. Your statement is still as outrageous and wrong even with those two words replaced and my comments still stand the same. How did Einstein "support" those genocides? Define the "Intelligentsia" that supported those genocides? How did "Intelligentsia" support those genocides?
- kromem 3y agoPerhaps there was a shortage of 'wiseness.'
- melagonster 3y agosorry, the history of communism in China directly supported by intelectuals. the first member of CCP is famous writer.
- adriancr 3y agoSure, some might have been stupid to support communism. (as some are still today) What happened to them afterwards? That should be a cautionary tale.