• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Not just the US, though Nazi soldiers intentionally tried to end up as US POWs rather than anything else, and avoided being Soviet POWs rather than anything else.

    • linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      yeah because they treated them like fucking kings and not the monsters they were, because there is no ideological difference between amerikkka and nazi germany, the only difference is that germany tried to genocide people who were too close to white for other europeans to not give a shit.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      7 days ago

      Not just the US

      Yeah, their Western vassal states also, and areas under its neocolonial sway.

      Nazis were afraid of the Soviets because the Red Army knew there was only one way to deal with facsists. Unlike the US who valued fascists and utilized them extensively during the cold war to fight against socialist movements particularly in Latin America and Africa.

      Though it is very on brand for a pro-US clown to stamd up for their pet fascists

      • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.club
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        7 days ago

        Indeed, but even hiring and giving citizenship for such people (nazi scientists, military and engineers), especially considering how they got their "knowledge" isn't an "ok" thing. Neither for US's Paperclip.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
          hexagon
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          7 days ago

          People can be reeducated and rehabilitated, I have no issue with USSR doing that. What I have a problem with is keeping the ideology alive which is what the US intentionally and methodically did after the war https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/the-u-s-did-not-defeat-fascism-in-wwii-it-discretely-internationalized-it/

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
              hexagon
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              7 days ago

              Everybody who was actively involved in committing war crimes was prosecuted in harshest terms possible by USSR. This has been extensively documented, so not sure what you're going on about here.

              • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.club
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                7 days ago

                Actively criticizing how both USSR and US secretly gave citizenship and hired nazi-fascists (and history is there to be checked) (therefore actively positioning myself against nazi-fascists and against everybody who "sits at a table with nazis and stays at the table") is "carrying water for nazi-fascists"? WTH?!

                • linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml
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                  6 days ago

                  bruh amerikkka and the br**ish put nazi officers directly responsible for the genocide in the highest positions of power withing their country and within nato and kept them in power in nazi germany, the USSR hung them. The USSR also didnt welcome the scientits responsible for the genocide while the western countries did, it is ok to think that even that was too much but it is lunacy to say that what they did is even close being similar to what the western countries did.

                • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  7 days ago

                  No critisizing is fine - it's equivocating that is the problem

                  And you are equivocating the two. The US is the imperialist hegemon that actively sides and engages with fascists to this day. The USSR was a bulwark against capitalist hegemony for decades. They aren't the same and you are trying to say there's no difference. That's what i call caring water for fascists

      • lemmur@szmer.info
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        6 days ago

        Are you under the impression that the USSR still exists?

        At least one sad bald man in Kreml certainly wants it to return

        • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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          6 days ago

          Yes, the traitor to the USSR that was part of the reason it was dissolved in the first place, who tried to join NATO (an organization created to go against the USSR), who is the leader of an incredibly Capitalist nation, actually was joking for the last few decades and is really a secret Communist. That definitely makes sense.