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People don't stop to argue with you because they can't. They stop argueing with you for the same reason you stop argueing against a holocaust denier or someone who doesn't believe in evolution. |
That's exactly why I stopped debating Mai. One of my pet hates is genocide denial and distorting facts to suit a nationalist (or patriotic if you prefer) agenda which is what Mai is doing. There's simply no point as you said it's kind of like debating other genocide deniers such as Holocaust deniers or even evolution or climate change deniers.
http://faminegenocide.com/resources/facts.html
Mai is clearly a Russian 'patriot' and won't hear anything bad said about agressive Russian foreign policy past present and future no matter how awful it is and with this mindset he will form his opinions dressed up as facts. Granted Russian action in Ukraine is in some way 'defensive' as I mentioned but it doesn't give it the right to trample over Ukraine's right to self determination which it is actively doing.
Putin talks about the rights of ethnic Russian speaking people in other lands, what about the rights of Tartars and Chechens who would rather not be a part of Russia? Hypocrisy at it's worst.
It's ironic seeing Putin and his supporters talk about far right fascism in Ukraine when Russian TV gives plenty of air time to Western European far right politicians and also many on the far right in Western countries admire Putin for being a true 'patriot' for his country.
USA, EU, OSCE and the UN call Holodomor a genocide. Putins Russia does not (this is Mai and his 'patriotic' stance).
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Joint_Statement_on_Holodomor
P.S Wikipedia rules.
