• erik@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Tell me one thing Hitlers regime did that Putins regime hasn’t done one a smaller scale. I’ll start with the only thing I am not aware of Putins regime having done: medical experiments on prisoners (although I personally think “punitive psychiatry” is close enough).

    Things everyone knows:

    • baseless aggression against most neighbors; check
    • a history of genocidal warfare: check (ask Chechens)
    • their own Direlewanger Sturm Brigade made from convicts: check (Sturm Z)
    • propagandists openly agitating for genocide (burning or drowning Ukrainian kids): check (as I said I have followed both sides)
    • forced removal of children (also falls under genocide): check
    • denying people to speak their own language and punishing them for it (also falls under genocide): check
    • terror bombing cities with no military value like Germans during the blitz: check
    • breaking agreements (like the Budapest Memorandum): check
    • killing prisoners en masse: check (although thankfully Putler doesn’t have the logistical evil geniuses from Endlösung working for him)
    • razing cities to the ground like Warszaw and preventing the population from fleeing: check (see Mariupol)

    I even have two more that I am not aware of the Nazis doing:

    • blatantly breaking their own cease fires to shell agreed upon evacuation corridors for both civilians and unarmed military personnel
    • openly arguing for and taking practical steps to use hunger in the third world for their own political advantage.

    I hope this should be enough to convince everyone except for the dumbest of the dumbest that Russians are almost just like (thankfully) dumb Nazis with less stylish uniforms.

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Tell me one thing Hitlers regime did that Putins regime hasn’t done

      The Holocaust.

      Russians are almost just like (thankfully) dumb

      Generalizing Russians and instead of Putin’s regime AND calling them stupid. Not racist at all.

      • erik@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        So easy to beat someone when you leave out half the sentence:

        I wrote “Tell me one thing Hitlers regime did that Putins regime hasn’t done on a smaller scale”.

        And yes, Putin hasn’t done the holocaust, because they thankfully aren’t well enough organized to do that.

        The rhetoric is there as I already mentioned. The smaller scale “disappearances” of civilians Nacht und Nebel style and experiments on larger scale exterminations like Olevnika are there.

        Word plays won’t get you anywhere.

        And if it it racist to point out that Putins regime is evil but thankfully dumb then so be it.

        Someone would probably tried to arrest me for hate speak against the nazis too.

        • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          1 year ago

          And if it it racist to point out that Putins regime

          You didn’t say Putin’s regime, you said Russians. Look who’s leaving shit out now?

          And idk how to tell you this but scale matters.