• @froh42
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    2 days ago

    So Germany didn’t have dictator oppression in the 30s and 40s? You think we didn’t have propaganda and we didn’t just kill people for another opinion? And we had access to outside information?

    I’m talking about a moral duty to oppose, to inform yourself in spite of all that. And I know it is not easy. We Germans failed that miserably.

    The plabook Putin is playing, we’ve been through it and it is was what lead to WW2.

    • @rottingleaf
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      12 days ago

      Germany also had that in the 20s, if we are being honest. It wasn’t an imperfect democracy and, ahem, it’s been ~35 years since USSR feeling really unwell, and ~25 years since Putin coming to power, and ~20 years since people started suspecting he’s not going to leave, and ~15 years since Medvedev becoming a president and Russians splitting into the half realizing that they’ve just been assraped, and the half deceiving themselves with some expectations, and ~10 years since every Russian being assraped again, Crimea and Donbass.

      When Hitler came to power, it was just about 10 years since finalizing the mess that happened in Germany after end of monarchy.