Documenting Cold War Truth: Human Rights Abuses and Spiritual Death in the USSR and the US

IF 0.7 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of Contemporary History Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI:10.1177/00220094231220956
M. Roman
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet activists in the USSR and members of the Black Panther Party in the United States emphasized the need to document the truth of domestic human rights abuses not in the land of the Cold War adversary but in their own. In the process, they contested the dominant misrepresentations of Soviet citizens and African Americans that obscured those routine human rights abuses. Members of both groups conceived of documenting this truth as essential to ultimately eliminating these domestic forms of state-sanctioned violence. They also spoke of the act of speaking the truth in word and deed as facilitating their own liberation from what they similarly identified as a devastating Soviet and American spiritual death in countries that were officially represented in the Cold War universe as the moral antithesis. The ‘woke’ or liberated individual was no longer a subservient, mask-wearing ‘Homo Sovieticus’ or ‘Negro’ who mouthed the lies of unbounded Soviet democracy and American freedom, but a genuine citizen and full human being who demanded respect for their human rights.
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记录冷战真相:苏联和美国的人权践踏与精神死亡
20 世纪 60 年代末和 70 年代初,苏联的苏维埃活动家和美国的黑豹党成员都强调,有必要记录国内侵犯人权的真相,而不是记录冷战对手的国家,而是记录他们自己的国家。在这一过程中,他们与对苏联公民和非裔美国人的主流歪曲相抗衡,这些歪曲掩盖了这些日常的侵犯人权行为。这两个团体的成员都认为,记录真相对于最终消除这些国家认可的国内暴力形式至关重要。他们还谈到,用语言和行动说出真相的行为有助于他们从苏联和美国的毁灭性精神死亡中解脱出来,他们同样认为这些国家在冷战时期被官方代表为道德对立面。觉醒 "或获得解放的个人不再是顺从的、戴着面具的 "苏联人 "或 "黑人",他们口口声声说着苏联民主和美国自由的谎言,而是真正的公民和要求尊重其人权的完整的人。
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