genuinely curious what ya'll think, i apologize in advance for the struggle session this might start lmao

  • ArmedHostage [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Possibly, possibly he may have been able tp convince the KPD and SPD German socialists to form a united front against the Nazis. If so, untold numbers of people could have been spared the camps and the Eastern Front.

    Matt said on a stream that if Germany hadnt gone fascist, France was also teetering either way at the time - I dont know that much history but I could see it because of how unstable France was. It could have been a Franco-Italo fascist alliance that the USSR and German socialists couldve opposed instead of the Nazis and Italian fascists. No idea how that couldve shook out.

    • StalinVibes [she/her,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I cannot imagine the SPD would go for that, like there was bad blood on both sides of that. I mean there's a reason they endorsed Hindenburg over Thalman in 1932, like their leader otto wels said "Bolshevism and fascism are brothers. They are both founded on violence and dictatorship, regardless of how socialist or radical they may appear".

    • mlm [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      if only the USSR won the Polish-Soviet war so that it could support a German revolution