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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorry, who were the communists during the holocaust?

[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you mean the german ones thrown in the camps or the soviet leadership who were the last of the eventual allied powers to do any sort of appeasement with Hitler (after exhausting all attempts to form an alliance with Britain and France) because communism is less aligned with fascist goals than liberalism is aligned with fascist goals, massive underexageration mine? Do you mean the communist low level officials who helped in a massive ethnic relocation program to move vulnerable minorities out of the way of the eventual german invasion? Or do you mean the population of the only communist nation which lost 26 million people, around 1/6th of their population, stopping the holocaust?

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me