https://twitter.com/dwdavison/status/1708845143413969203

https://www.politico.eu/article/fight-against-ussr-nazi-waffen-ss-trooper-yaroslav-hunka-world-war-ii-soviet-union-germany/

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Propagandists: Soviets bad.

    Also propagandists: Look I know the Nazis did some horrifying shit, but history is complicated and at least they fought those damn commiesso-true

    • boiledfrog [he/him, undecided]
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      1 year ago

      Home grown Nazis were already going secretly to Ukraine for training, now they will do it loud and proudly.

    • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Perhaps this was part of the plan all along. There's a growing resentment of the current system over in the west. It's still arguably disorganized and doubtfully socialist in any way, but it is there. And who else is better to crush the nascent worker's movement than the Nazis? Heck, that's how the original Nazis came to be

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I'll keep saying it, ever since the Cold War most Western leaders regret fighting on the same side as the Soviets.

  • SuperZutsuki [they/them, any]
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    1 year ago

    Conspiracy-brain here: the US is funding this war until Nazis are legally recognized as oppressed minorities in other countries and allowed refugee status after popular opinion starts leaning in favor of them. We're just not producing enough of them organically, need to pump those numbers up.

  • ped_xing [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    That fucking Seattle dipshit will become a regular contributor to a major news organization.

  • Flaps [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Show

    The writer's wiki. That was fast.

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    yeah because if we admit that, even a little bit, suddenly the cold war looks really sus