• Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    3 years ago

    I mean yeah. Communists aren't nazis. The USSR conducted extensive background checks on the soldiers of the nazi military to prosecute any war criminals for their crimes against humanity.

    This isn't saying there's a clean nor permanently stained German military - it was shades on the slider. An example of this was that during the nazi campaign east in the "liebensraum" phase there were both SS and general army battalions engaged in genocide of entire villages. There was also a few battalions that either did not participate ( their commanders actually had a moral backbone). The Soviet investigation into nazi warcrimes would gather evidence of either case and make a judgment to either prosecute the soldiers involved or pardon them.

    A more contemporary version would be looking into the service history of soldiers and seeing what careers they lead and their political associations are. An infantryman that was stationed in FOB bumfucksville Valley, Iraq where the most illegal thing he did was drink bootleg rotgut and work out the entire time and has no political associations as a dumb boot that checked out of politics to watch his team on Sundays would be considered pardonable whereas the logistics guy that spent his entire career counting the grooves on rifle handgrips and giving briefings to dipshit officers on the importance of not loosing equipment but has right-militia associations and is suspected of smuggling military equipment out to them would face further investigation and possibly prison if not execution depending on circumstances.

    Making sweeping condemnations or pardons is not the communist way. Scientific examination of the evidence on all issues is.

    • Bernies3trlnKielbasa [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      the logistics guy that spent his entire career counting the grooves on rifle handgrips and giving briefings to dipshit officers on the importance of not loosing equipment but has right-militia associations and is suspected of smuggling military equipment out to them

      Sgt. Contreras of the NCR

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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        3 years ago

        Lmao his wiki entry bruh.

        Also for real though there's actually soldiers in military logistics doing this for reals and it legit scares the shit out of me .

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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        3 years ago

        And I can say for a fact I never mentioned nazi battalion commanders. You and that 2 day sus account are, intentionally or not, misinterpreting my phrasing and making assumptions based on thosr misinterpretions. And if that is the case then I apologize for not making a clear distinction in my sentence.

        Back to the topic itself, field commanders that did not participate in the eastern genocide, ranging from polish repressions, to the Belarusian "village relocating", and so forth, ​belonged, insofar as I am aware, to the German army command structure, and not the parallel nazi party paramilitary SS command structure. This was to illustrate that regardless of the fact the entire organization of the German army followed the nazi party's orders eastwards and participated and even reveled in the genocidal project the fascists were orchestrating, after the war was won careful examinations in the records of the surviving German military to properly judge and prosecute the war criminals and fascists on the basis of their crimes against the Soviet people. An example of sorting out said war criminals from the general soldiery would be as listed above.

        I'll wrap this up by saying if you continue to ignore the overall bulk of my writing on the topic and focus on the misunderstanding after I, hopefully, corrected the misunderstanding then I'll have to interpret any further conversation as being in complete bad faith and I'll have to ask you to disengage in this conversation. I genuinely hope it doesn't come to this.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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        3 years ago

        Because there weren't any nazi commanders. There were German army commanders, yet those were few and far between and often purged for their humanity.

        Edit: wait I'm not even talking about army commanders, aka the big beautiful generals :trump-anguish: but about battalion commanders! Whole different meaning there since army commanders are strategic level officers that engage in more political fighting than frontline fighting whereas battalion commanders are the last officer grade that engages in frontline fighting and is generally less politically involved (unless they're jockeying for a promotion). Was this entire thread the culmination of a misunderstanding of military organizing? Probably lol

    • please_dont [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Being a willing commander ,and too a lesser extend grunt ,on a genocidal and enslavement against an entire race of people war of aggression 2000 miles from home while civilian holocaust of tens of millions of people is happening around you perpetrated by 95% of your brothers in arms makes you indeed permanently stained and unclean. You dont have to rape women or execute every civilian you see.

      There where shades on a slider but even in the outmost edges of it there certainly werent "clean" whermacht soldiers and commanders "with moral backbones". Shades still started with almost black into pitch ,zero photon reflecting, black

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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        3 years ago

        Uh huh, I really don't give a shit about this continual moral harping on over the fucking army of nazi germany.

        I've made my point over and over that this is a discussion over how the Soviet union, after they liberated east germany, processed the surrendered German army to filter out war criminals and fascists from among their ranks in order to demoralize and reintegrate them without having to worry about a fascist uprising after the war with the above example as being a possible gauge for execution, imprisonment, reeducation, or reintegration.

        If you want to discuss that then I'm down, but if you're going to try to argue about what shade of vanta or coal or super or soot black you think best suits the nazis, then go argue with someone else.