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    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.

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