• usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Hitler was incredibly crooked as well the man mandated people buy Mein Kampf and kept the proceeds personally. It's not brought up a lot because naively historians assume no one would be such a bloodless nerd as to care whether the man who killed millions was also skimming from the till of the Nazi state

    • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Holy shit, that's when it started!

      I always wondered how every single politician in :amerikkka: has the same dumb grift of writing a shitty book they make their followers buy and who started it

      Hitler wouldn't have been my first guess but this makes too much sense

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Exactly, and the claim that Hitler wasn't crooked or in bed with organized crime (which he objectively was) is just one of the absolutely deranged liberal hot takes where they just have to make Russia out to be something utterly beyond the pale, something bigger than the biggest demons of history, to the point where they start doing Hitler apologia and Holocaust denial to serve that end.

      Honestly surprised they haven't started penning opeds like "Why the siege of Mariupol is worse than Genghis Khan's sack of Baghdad" or declared Russia to be engaged in "An assault on Europe of a scale not seen since Attila the Hun," just the absolute most unhinged shit.