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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (11 children)

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

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[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn't know the Cambodians, Polish, Kalmyks, Kazakhs, Tatars, Ukrainians, Anarchists, Left SRs, Trotskyists and Peasants were all Nazis. Must be fun to live in that world.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (25 children)

The Finns who died defending their homeland from naked, opportunistic Soviet imperialism also wish to say hi.

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[–] JLock17@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago
[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My mom was just telling me a while ago about how one of her uncles was tortured by the communists after they came to power. Small note: he was a member of the legionnaires, so I can relate to this meme.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Sounds like a racist who was a part of a terrorist group.

Both can be pieces of shit.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Two things are true at once:

  • They did crimes
  • They fought even bigger criminals

And two things are true at once:

  • Descendants of their innocent victims consider them monsters, and they are correct and valid.
  • Descendants of the even bigger criminals that got "neutralized" hide among the other category, and they are dishonest.
[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only correct take in capitalism-communism discourse

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, this is the for the Communism-fascism discourse.

When it comes to Communism-capitalism, my take is that while we are able, correct and valid to pinpoint the crimes of (big-C) Communists, we are steeped in (small-c) capitalist ideology and are completely desensitized to the ongoing systemic crimes of our own system, which are in my opinion graver than anything the (big-C) Communists ever did.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Fair point. I definitely feel like the shortcomings of capitalism will become more evident if/when we eventually switch to a different politico-economic model. For now, the propaganda is still prevalent.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 days ago

First they came for the grandfathers and I did not speak out, for my grandfather was a Nazi.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Yeah, or they were LGBTQ+.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or a slightly different version of communist.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 25 points 4 days ago

Or any other flavor of leftist.

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