• Rojo27 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Propagandists: Soviets bad.

    Also propagandists: Look I know the Nazis did some horrifying shit, but history is complicated and at least they fought those damn commiesso-true

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    This shit is going to blowback into the West hard when mainstream acceptance of Ukrainian Nazis enables acceptance of home grown Nazis.

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      9 months ago

      Perhaps this was part of the plan all along. There’s a growing resentment of the current system over in the west. It’s still arguably disorganized and doubtfully socialist in any way, but it is there. And who else is better to crush the nascent worker’s movement than the Nazis? Heck, that’s how the original Nazis came to be

  • SuperZutsuki [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    Conspiracy-brain here: the US is funding this war until Nazis are legally recognized as oppressed minorities in other countries and allowed refugee status after popular opinion starts leaning in favor of them. We’re just not producing enough of them organically, need to pump those numbers up.