April 02, 2019 Tuesday
Bedtime Story
How Lenin Stayed in Contact with Bela Kun
Let me recapitulate the main reasons why
the Hungarian Jews had become the most prominent and noticeable minority in
1920s and at the same time most envied and despised.
(1) Leading role in economy, banks,
finance, professions, arts and media
(2) Leading role in the brief Communist
upheaval that took place starting in 1918 that led to the formation of
Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1920 and which lasted a mere 133 days
It was the second socialist state in the
world to be formed following the 1917 October Revolution led by Vladimir Lenin
in Russia and in a way was being controlled by direct orders from Lenin to Bela
Kun via the newly discovered means of radio communication or wireless
telegraphy.
You would know that prior to the wireless
form of telegraphy messages in the form of Morse codes were transmitted using
physical conducting wires and cables that just like the fiber-optic cables
(Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe or FLAG) of today were laid across the
oceans (apart from those on land).
In general, all such communication cables
that are laid over the sea bed are known as submarine communications cable and
the first person who actually sent a telegraphic message through a wire
submerged in water (in an experimental fashion) but insulated with tarred hemp
and Indian rubber was Samuel Morse in 1842 in the waters of New York Harbor.
Politics and wars have always been the
greatest exploiters of technology and some would even argue that wars lead to
or act as a spur for technological breakthroughs.
(3) Their association with Communism,
Bolsheviks and Revolution
(4) Large presence in universities and
elite professions relative to their percentage in general population.
So you see Mon Ami, there was this ever
pervasive and instinctive mob consensus among the Hungarian multitudes that it
was this one race called Jews that was responsible for all the ills that
existed in the Hungarian society.
This should not make you feel that Jews
were a special case for our history is replete with such cases of scapegoating.
The scapegoating is a recurrent theme in
human history and has involved any and all imaginable groups of people:
genders, religion, people of different races, nations, sexual orientations,
people with different political beliefs and sometimes even with people who solely
differ in their behavior from the majority.
Scapegoating has been medically described
as “process in which the mechanisms of projection or displacement are utilized
in focusing feelings of aggression, hostility, frustration, etc., upon another
individual or group; the amount of blame being unwarranted.”
Scapegoating as a mechanism necessitates
that ingroup members define one particular person or a minority group and pin
the blame on him or them as the root cause of all their troubles even though
rationally that simply cannot be the case.
We shall look into this scapegoating
tendency of us apes.
Stay tuned to the voice of an
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
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