Reminder that something known as the November Revolution happened in Germany in 1918-19, perpetrated by the bolsheviks. The hatred didn't just spring up from the aether.
In interviews with many former Wehrmacht and SS troops, they justified everything with "we were fighting communism". Does that justify everything they did? Of course not. What it does tell you is that communism was so bad that many otherwise normal people were able to justify crimes against humanity in the name of stopping it.
Reminder that something known as the November Revolution happened in Germany in 1918-19, perpetrated by the bolsheviks. The hatred didn't just spring up from the aether.
I knew there was something of communism, but I don't know the details.
In interviews with many former Wehrmacht and SS troops, they justified everything with "we were fighting communism". Does that justify everything they did? Of course not. What it does tell you is that communism was so bad that many otherwise normal people were able to justify crimes against humanity in the name of stopping it.
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