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Are we the baddies? ...

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https://www.mdr.de/geschichte/ddr/politik-gesellschaft/entnazifizierung-nazis-in-der-ddr-100.html
Denazification in East Germany was also lacking
- Part of the trouble is that Nazism had co-opted so many people by then that to literally murder them all would be another Holocaust. At the end of hostilities, nobody had the stomach to murder like 10% of all Germans.
  The third reich did have its fifth columnists however, and people too often give them short shrift in their recollections. If there were a few more in the right place, I like to think a lot of lives could have been saved, maybe the whole thing stopped earlier.
Did the Soviets not have their own Operation Paperclip?
Operation Osoaviakhim - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim
- Yeah this is brainless pro-Soviet propaganda. All too common here, sadly.
  
  The scientists where used as a resource, not given high ranks in civilian and military life you 🤡
- lmao this is literally the USSR using Nazis for labour. Big fucking deal 🤣
  They’d be workin my camps too. No shame in that.
  Comparing this to high ranked, influential positions they got in America is just a coping mechanism. Look what they’ve done to your brain dude…
But what is the result? Where are more nazies nowadays, in Europe or in Russia, hmm?
- Gee, I wonder if there's a formative event in the early 90s that could've had some effect on this. Maybe a decline in quality of life that would make people liable to embrace a rightwing dictator. Perhaps neoliberals could be involved? Nah, no way.
- Just so we’re clear, you think giving Nazis high ranking positions in western countries was a good idea?
  
  just so we’re clear, the point is this meme is false, you’re playing dumb and look like a tankie
  
  Talk about a leap.
  That's like if I asked you "Just to be clear, you think all those officers, their families and children should have been shot?"
- Pfff, in Amerikkka, of course!

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