• halfpipe [they/them]
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    9 months ago

    How the fuck can they read accounts of SS Galicia killing tens of thousands of civilians, and burning men, women and children alive and then be like "Thank you for your service".

    • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      They seem to be going with "He joined them AFTER they did those things, so it's totally cool". Like after literally burning people alive they just gave away milk and cookies for the rest of their military duty.

      • CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        Personally I think that's even worse. It implies that SS Galicia had a reputation for brutal mass murder by that point and this dude decided to join up with them. It's like wanting to enlist in the US Army right after you find out about My Lai.

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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          9 months ago

          Him voluntering after crimes is also a lie, SS Galizien was founded in 1943 and comitted crimes against humanity up till the very end of war.

          • CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml
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            9 months ago

            I figured that was probably the case, too. I don't really understand how people could think a Nazi unit would suddenly stop doing Nazi stuff during the war. Anything to pretend anti-communists are heroes, I guess.

          • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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            9 months ago

            Stay-behind Ukrainian Nazi cells kept committing crimes against humanity for years after the war ended, they murdered tens of thousands of civilians in Ukraine all the way up to the early 1950s when they were finally crushed by the Soviet government.

          • CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml
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            9 months ago

            I mean, I was stupid at 16-18, but I'm pretty sure doing anything like that would have given me a mental breakdown or worse.

              • CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml
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                9 months ago

                I genuinely can't comprehend how a person could think such a thing. Even if I killed 1000 Nazis, I'd still feel a weight on my conscience from killing so many people. I can't understand the mind of men who can kill civilians without an ounce of guilt or remorse.

    • jackmarxist [any]
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      9 months ago

      Because they like it. They just don't like being branded as a bad guy so they don't show their internal thoughts unless they find it is socially acceptable, like in the Canadian parliament or Ukraine.

      • StalinForTime [comrade/them]
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        9 months ago

        Yh i'm increasingly gettin the suspicion that for some of these liberals the war allows them to vicariously relive their glory days in age of empires or total war where they get to massacre hordes of non-europeans.

      • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        Like when white racists will be racist around other white people because they think they'll find it acceptable.

    • Deadend [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Because Neo-liberalism only takes place here and now. There is no long term, there is no past.

      Ideology or reasons are a distance second to “maintain whatever the status quo is in my mind”