• SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    25 days ago

    Stuff I’ve heard libs work themselves up over:

    • “all of Stalin’s progroms”
    • Yeah, west Germany was run by “former” Nazis, but the Stasi also secretly employed ex-SS people! (And no, they did not provide any further details)
    • East Germany was a watered down version of Nazi Germany
    • Stalin tried to kill all of the Ukrainians (for no apparent reason)
    • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      25 days ago

      but the Stasi also secretly employed ex-SS people! (And no, they did not provide any further details)

      Pretty sure they only employed them to dig their own graves

      Edit: sorry employed implies they were paid lol

    • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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      there were a bunch of mayors and other low level shit that kinda didn’t matter wasn’t there? in both germanys. surely the greater sin is to put the nazis in charge of nato and your space program.

      • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        There’s definitely a practical aspect of, like, everyone in the civil service joined the Nazi party, so if you throw them all into a pit then Germany won’t be able to function as a society.

        The Soviets had the low- and mid- tier engineers do work on the early Soviet air and space program, along with taking a lot of factory equipment with them east, but this was always framed as part of war reparations which once paid came to an end.