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And the other end of this is when you actually encounter REAL Nazis, certain members of the left wing tribe all of a sudden claim that they're not actually Nazis:
https://www.politico.eu/article/fight-against-ussr...This is in reference to the standing ovation Canada's Parliament full of historical illiterates gave to a 90-something year old Waffen SS member.
Here's what this spectacularly stupid article has to say:
Canada's Hunka scandal is a demonstration of how when history is complicated, it can be a gift to propagandists who exploit the appeal of simplicity.Oh, really? Politco ought to know what propangandists are; they themselves fit the bill pretty darned well.
It gets better:
Everybody knows that a lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth has even got its boots on.
And the ongoing turmoil over Canada's parliament recognizing former SS trooper Yaroslav Hunka highlights one of the most important reasons why.
Something that's untrue but simple is far more persuasive than a complicated, nuanced truth ' a major problem for Western democracies trying to fight disinformation and propaganda by countering it with the truth, and one reason why fact-checking and debunking are only of limited use for doing so.left wing chutzpah at its finest. It literally doesn't get any better than this. So what does Politico think the truth actually is?
In the case of Hunka, the mass outrage stems from his enlistment with one of the foreign legions of the Waffen-SS, fighting Soviet forces on Germany's eastern front. And it's a demonstration of how when history is complicated, it can be a gift to propagandists who exploit the appeal of simplicity.
This history is complicated because fighting against the USSR at the time didn't necessarily make you a Nazi, just someone who had an excruciating choice over which of these two terror regimes to resist. However, the idea that foreign volunteers and conscripts were being allocated to the Waffen-SS rather than the Wehrmacht on administrative rather than ideological grounds is a hard sell for audiences conditioned to believe the SS's primary task was genocide. Maybe that's because the SS's primary task WAS genocide.
This author could give a bag of hammers a run for their money in an IQ contest. He must be unaware that to get into the SS you had to...swear allegiance to Adolf Hitler himself.
Dumb. On stilts. But this is what today's media has become, even as they label any and everything that doesn't fit the left wing narrative "misinformation".
