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The US was the literal blueprint for most of what Nazis did (lemmy.world)

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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Nazis were absolutely evil, but what’s interesting about them is that they are universally hated largely because they merely brought the horrors of colonialism home to Europe.

You had ethnic cleansing of Turks in Greece and the other way around as well, the Holodomor in Ukraine and a lot more when you go back in history. It was not new, but just easier to do outside of Europe for Western European countries. For example Spain committed genocide against the Muslims in Iberia, before going to the Americas.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

The 1930s soviet famine was not an attempt at colonialism, nor intentional. At best, it was made worse by mismanagement, but to compare it to colonialism or the Holocaust is a severe misrepresentation of it. Genocide and atrocities predated colonialism, this is true, but the point is that Hitler is so uniquely despised among the world at a universal level precisely due to the fact that he directed colonialism towards the rest of Europe. Western powers were no stranger to the kinds of brutal torture committed by the Nazis, their victims were just largely non-white.