• Flinch [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_

      First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

      Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist

      Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

      Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew

      Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

    • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Do you mean the german ones thrown in the camps or the soviet leadership who were the last of the eventual allied powers to do any sort of appeasement with Hitler (after exhausting all attempts to form an alliance with Britain and France) because communism is less aligned with fascist goals than liberalism is aligned with fascist goals, massive underexageration mine? Do you mean the communist low level officials who helped in a massive ethnic relocation program to move vulnerable minorities out of the way of the eventual german invasion? Or do you mean the population of the only communist nation which lost 26 million people, around 1/6th of their population, stopping the holocaust?

      Or were you referring to the joke about racism? If so, you gotta look up how the population of the USSR was not considered white at the time. Emma Goldman for example basically called Stalin a slanty eyed conniving Asian, for example. Nowadays slavs are still called orcs and shit by westerners.