Third series - actually the fall of the Nazis - just started on BBC2.
Strangely there are already parallels with modern political events and characters
Strangely there are already parallels with modern political events and characters
Liz Truss is in her bunker ranting how she has been let down and betrayed?
Liz Truss is in her bunker ranting how she has been let down and betrayed?
Along with her counterpart in Moscow
Probably not far off 🙁
The reptile looked like she was in a continuous state of semi-orgasm on her Jolly to russia.
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Nazis are members of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. This organization no longer exist. The term “Nazis” is now used as a slur to denigrate people we don’t like.
The thing is 'nazi' has only ever been a slur. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party didnt coin the term Nazi for themselves - 'Nazi' is how other people , principally their opposition - referred to them - a nickname derived from truncating NA-tionalso-ZI-alistische - the word 'Nazi' predates the party as a derogatory term for a yokel or a peasant.
Its how germans in exile referred to the party but now how the party wanted to be referred to on home turf and it only found its way back into Germany once the war was over
Strangely there are already parallels with modern political events and characters
Liz Truss is in her bunker ranting how she has been let down and betrayed?
She's only got one ball?
She let Kwasi keep one then?
Kwasi Kwarteng has something similar.
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Poor ol' Chris Philp has no balls at all
We can only hope someone is his circle offs him.
Stalin was worse, and he lived to a ripe old age.
Spoiler alert.
It doesn't end well, but, it is worth reading "Germany 1945".
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Germany-1945-Peace-Richard-Bessel/dp/1416526196
for me one of the defining characteristics of fascism is it’s anti-Christianity (by which I mean it’s social structures, not it’s core beliefs)
There was a very definite Christian element in the German National Socialist movement, their flag was a black cross on a red background with a circle in the centre bearing a swastika.
Certainly in many countries moving towards extremely autocratic nationalist governments, religion has a major part in it, mostly evangelical Christian, but also Hindu, with Modi’s government in India.
there’s no othering or racism that Putin uses to demonize a outside group, and there’s no fetishisation of the future and technology, in fact there’s a yearning for the order of the past.
Sorry my irony filter is probably turned off but are you sure about this? He is demonising anyone who stands up to him as genocidal Nazis and his thing about hypersonic missiles & nuclear torpedos/mini submarines fits the bill on your criteria.
Oh, Putin is very definitely using the past for his actions, using the lie that Ukraine is just a former part of Greater Russia, and not an independent country with a history that actually predates Russia, the Kievan Rus.
The whole Nazi slur being used against Ukraine is just a ruse to play on memories of the Nazis in Russia during WW2, particularly Stalingrad.
Here is some background.
Strangely there are already parallels with modern political events and characters
That's the whole thing of not remembering the past and learning from mistakes.
Doesn't take much to get people flag wavingly dangerous.
