I don't agree.
I believe Hitler and his killing crews sought to make it easy on themselves while killing ten million Jews in cold blood, by not regarding them as ten million different individuals but merely as one great big reified lump, an ethnicity.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
For a medicine Modernity reserved for the military, penicillin sure missed a lot of battles ...
The USSR had at least 3 million life-threatening cases of bacterial infection between August 1940 and August 1945 that penicillin could have successfully treated.
It is not well known that Russia did make it its own penicillin and did treat some serious infections with it and saved some lives as a result during those five war years.
Sort of.
Soviet doctors treated 300 cases with their penicillin over those five years : out of at least 3 million life-threatening cases.
Not surprisingly, the Miracle of Penicillin does not loom highly in Russian historical accounts of the Great Patriotic War.
This too might easily have been the fate of wartime penicillin in the Allied West as well.
It is not well known that Russia did make it its own penicillin and did treat some serious infections with it and saved some lives as a result during those five war years.
Sort of.
Soviet doctors treated 300 cases with their penicillin over those five years : out of at least 3 million life-threatening cases.
Not surprisingly, the Miracle of Penicillin does not loom highly in Russian historical accounts of the Great Patriotic War.
This too might easily have been the fate of wartime penicillin in the Allied West as well.
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