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[–] superkret@feddit.org 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My source is my history teacher in secondary school, who had actually fled from the Soviet Union, and whose grandparents were dumped out of a train onto the Kirgis steppe without food or shelter by the Bolsheviks, where close to half starved in the first winter, for being of German descent.

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world -5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

"it's just a meme" that justifies literal genocide...

You're a broccoli head who cries "it's just a joke" when called out

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

My whole extended family on grandfather's side was killed for being jewish. My great grandfather was executed for the sin of not being executed during Holocaust.
You, personally, are trying to whitewash pretty atrocious evils, best case scenario because you're a stupid kid who don't have enough empathy.