• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Yep, prominent Nazis were even given leadership of NATO, such as Adolf Heusinger. The Soviets ended up being far harsher to the Nazis, hence why so many fled to Latin America to get away. Makes sense, considering the absolute devastation the Nazis wrought on the Soviets and the 20 million Soviet lives the Nazis took, and how comparatively little the US saw, as the 2 major powers emerging from World War II.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      “No you can’t bring up that NATO had actual Nazis with blood on their hands as leaders! Especially ones that tried to make a new Waffen-SS in the 50s! That’s unfair!”

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        Yep, people love to reflexively defend NATO, as it’s very effectively pitched as merely a “defensive alliance” when it has always served as a coercive arm for the US to pressure its geopolitical adversaries, especially the Soviets, hence why they worked with the most effective anticommunists, the Nazis. If you don’t play along with NATO, then they pull Operation Gladio on you.

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          4 days ago

          And russian bots love to attack NATO because it prevents their dictator putin from conquering all previous USSR territories that became sovereign nations.

          NATO wouldn’t be necessary if Russia stopped invading other countries. So you can blame putin for that.