#RinaLu knows her #history very well. This is one of the neatest summaries of the last World War, and of course the same #mindset is behind this new hybrid #WW3 using #Ukraine as the kinetic ground:

The Second World War is truly surrounded by myths but only in the West.

One side speaks only about the murdered Jews, while conveniently forgetting that Slavs were exterminated in far greater numbers. Another side laments the “poor Germans.”

But no one tells you who actually brought Hitler to power - Wall Street: the Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, the BIS, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hjalmar Schacht.


Few remember that the first thing Hitler did after taking power was to sign the Haavara Agreement with British Zionists, which transferred wealthy Jews from #Europe to #Palestine along with $2.16 billion worth of assets in today’s value.

#Britain did everything possible to turn Hitler eastward, toward destroying the #USSR, including handing over #Czechoslovakia, Europe’s key arms producer.

Meanwhile, Hitler was perfectly clear in Mein Kampf about his intentions:
to expand eastward and eradicate the #Slavs as an inferior race.

An army united under Europe, the Wehrmacht, systematically exterminated Slavs in the USSR, Poles in #Poland, and Serbs in #Yugoslavia. Operations Intelligenzaktion, Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion, and the Generalplan Ost were all designed to wipe out the Slavic world.

The Nazis also recruited ethnic groups within Soviet territory, Germans, Tatars, and others, many of whom openly sided with Hitler. And yet, it was the heroic Red Army that not only fought back but also liberated half of Europe.

After the war, however, Europe turned savage. Czechs massacred Germans.
Poles, Hungarians, and Romanians expelled them by the hundreds of thousands, many died along the way.

The British and Americans bombed civilians “to break morale,” and then erased Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the face of the earth, literally evaporating civilians.

European men humiliated their own women shaving their heads for “sleeping with Germans,” while those same men had once run away and hid.

And when the war was over, the United States hired Nazi scientists ( #Operation #Paperclip) and used Nazi agents against the USSR (Operation Aerodynamic).
The #Vatican hid war criminals in monasteries and helped them escape to Latin America and #Canada via ratlines.

All of this is well-documented.

What is not documented, however, is that the USSR ever did any of this:
It didn’t execute German civilians as revenge.
It didn’t shave its women.
It didn’t hire Nazis to destroy America.
It didn’t bomb cities to “break morale.”
It didn’t plan to drop atomic bombs on 66 U.S. cities.
You’ve never heard this before, have you?
Now ask yourself #why.

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in reply to ramnath

The German industrialists supported Hitler because,
1. he promised to quell unions and unionists, (which he did) and,
2. they felt they could control him.

McCarthy, in the US & his Red Scare was pretty much the same, but the powerful were already pushing the Red Scare door hard, he just joined them and became a disposable figurehead.

This latter pushed US public discourse to the right and it has never fully returned to centre.