It's been over 51 years ago. Let's do something NOW. Find Oleg Pyzhcov, who seems to have disappeared about 2 years ago, in Belarus, and/or at least find the traces, the witnesses. He is a known guy in software. But it seems like nobody (in software world) fucking cares what happened to the guy whose code they caressly use.
When I was in Chile exactly a year ago, I picked up a calendar for 1973. The dates went September 8, September 9, September 10, September 11, September 11, September 11, September 11... Chile still lives in September 11, 1973. The trauma is alive as if it were today in the morning. In a country that then had, what, 9 million people, there were something like 1500 torture chambers. That is not something that easy to live down.
I am not saying that should be the only thing. But these things should never be forgotten - or forgiven. At the Memory Museum in Santiago I bought a biography of one Miguel Krasnoff. The grandfather served the Tsar, the father served Hitler, the grandson went for Pinochet. History is not a series of unrelated vignettes.
We should remember them all. South America is not another world: and they are aware of us. Some time ago I've quoted from Timerman
And we should be on alert. We were lucky to escape, evade all this. I feel like, hmm, with all my graffitis, books copying and distribution, how come I was never caught? Ok, I thought I was really careful. But now I know I was not. Just pure luck and hubris. Like when cops, during a meeting, approached me and my friend, going to grab us, I just told them: "don't interfere, do you see, we are talking?" - and they left. Ok, we were, may of us, lucky. But not all.
One thing I cannot but reiterate: survivor's bias should not blind us to the fact that we all have been really lucky. There is a lot we should be grateful for.
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Date: 2025-01-08 12:32 am (UTC)Let's do something NOW. Find Oleg Pyzhcov, who seems to have disappeared about 2 years ago, in Belarus, and/or at least find the traces, the witnesses. He is a known guy in software. But it seems like nobody (in software world) fucking cares what happened to the guy whose code they caressly use.
I'm out of ideas now.
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Date: 2025-01-08 05:37 pm (UTC)I am not saying that should be the only thing. But these things should never be forgotten - or forgiven. At the Memory Museum in Santiago I bought a biography of one Miguel Krasnoff. The grandfather served the Tsar, the father served Hitler, the grandson went for Pinochet. History is not a series of unrelated vignettes.
We should remember them all. South America is not another world: and they are aware of us. Some time ago I've quoted from Timerman
https://gomberg.dreamwidth.org/2692.html
We should be aware as well.
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Date: 2025-01-08 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-08 06:04 pm (UTC)