US Official News
February 21, 2015 Saturday
“Nobody Talks about the Armenians Nowadays”
Washington
INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS has issued the following news release:
Staunton, February 18 – On August 22, 1939, Adolf Hitler explained to
his entourage why he thought he could get away with mass murder by
saying that “nobody talks about the Armenians nowadays,” despite the
fact that they had been the victims of a mass murder only 24 years
earlier.
Hitler’s sweeping cynicism in this regard is increasingly relevant to
an evaluation of what is going on in the world today with its ever
shorter news cycles and even shorter attention spans. Now, to give but
one horrific example, although it has been less than a year, almost no
one speaks anymore about Crimea and Russia’s brutal occupation of that
Ukrainian peninsula.
And in this brave new world, some leaders have concluded that whatever
they say or do will be forgotten in the press of events, with some
insisting that it must be in order to move forward, others saying that
it is at least partially true, and still others using the tried-and-
true argument that “everybody does it” as if that is a justification.
No current leader has exploited this reality more often than Vladimir
Putin and nowhere has he made statements of such cynical fraudulence
as with regard to Ukraine. The latest of these came yesterday in
Budapest, and it deserves to be remembered, like the Armenians, like
Crimea, and like so much else, although it will be subsumed by the
onrush of events.