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minus-squarequediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·2 days agoYeah, it would be more correct to compare the to the gestapo and the SD instead of the whole party.
minus-squareFunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoWhy is the Stasi, a state organ responsible for countering all the fascist groups the US was still backing, comparable to the state organs of the Nazi Germany that the communists were intent on destroying?
minus-squarequediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoWho you say you are fighting is irrelevant. It is how you do it. The first comparison wasn’t about ideologies, it was about spying the population and the stasi took it to a whole new level. Those governments weren’t trying to destroy nazi organizations, they were trying to destroy anything that it wasn’t them and people suffered for that.
minus-squareSphere [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down1·2 days agothe wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: “theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron”
Yeah, it would be more correct to compare the to the gestapo and the SD instead of the whole party.
Why is the Stasi, a state organ responsible for countering all the fascist groups the US was still backing, comparable to the state organs of the Nazi Germany that the communists were intent on destroying?
Who you say you are fighting is irrelevant. It is how you do it.
The first comparison wasn’t about ideologies, it was about spying the population and the stasi took it to a whole new level.
Those governments weren’t trying to destroy nazi organizations, they were trying to destroy anything that it wasn’t them and people suffered for that.
the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: “theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron”