JUST BRAINWASHING!!!It is some centuries the ordinary idiot is brainwashed about 'revolutions' and 'counterrevolutions'. They were and are just tales, propaganda, lies. 'Bolshevik' 'revolution' included, they are just Secret Police operations. Look now at Ukraine! There is just the clash between German and West terrorism and militarism against the Russian ones...

Weekend reading on nybooks.com: The NYRblog looks at the propaganda about Ukraine, a harsh anti-homosexuality law in Uganda, and the new film by the director of A Separation. The Gallery listens to the sound of Muscle Shoals, where Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett recorded. And the Review’s March 20 issue surveys the pioneering work of historian David Brion Davis and the secret kindness of W.H. Auden. The NYRB Winter Sale offers fifty books at 50% off.

Ukraine: The Truth Timothy Snyder Whatever course the Russian intervention may take, it is not an attempt to stop a fascist coup, since nothing of the kind has taken place. What has taken place is a popular revolution, with all of the messiness, confusion, and opposition that entails.   ADVERTISEMENT   Uganda’s Anti-Gay Law Helen Epstein Uganda’s government is wracked with corruption, its troops are involved in bloody conflicts in several countries, and there is widespread discontent even within the ruling party. At times like this, a dictator’s thoughts often turn to the moral behavior of others.   No One Is Blameless Christopher de Bellaigue In his last film, A Separation, the intensity of Asghar Farhadi’s regard and the fineness of the performances made a small tale of family conflict seem vitally important to audiences around the world. The director’s new film, The Past, has similar qualities.   ADVERTISEMENT   The Cradle of Soul Andrew Martin Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin, Etta James, the Rolling Stones, Paul Simon, and the Staple Singers recorded some of their best-known songs in Muscle Shoals, a small Alabama town that produced some of the best rock and soul recordings of the 1960s and 1970s.   The Scholar Who Shaped History Drew Gilpin Faust In 1966, David Brion Davis published his influential The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. The book and his subsequent work would shape scholars and scholarship for decades to come.   The Secret Auden Edward Mendelson W.H. Auden had a secret life that his closest friends knew little or nothing about. Everything about it was generous and honorable. He kept it secret because he would have been ashamed to have been praised for it.   The NYRB Winter Sale 50% off 50 books   March 11: Join Daniel Mendelsohn at Politics & Prose for the paperback release of Waiting for the Barbarians.   Ongoing: At the Met, an exhibition of Charles Marville’s exquisitely nuanced photographs of 19th-century Paris.