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[–]Nombre27 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You get as much information as you can, assess the information, synthesize it, and then come to a conclusion. While I don't particularly care to argue about the details, much of the primary story and causal factors preceding WW2 have been omitted from history class. I do recommend informing yourself on this period.

For instance, do you know what lead to the creation and rise of the Nazi party? Did you learn in school that post-WW1, communists in Germany started a civil war à la the Bolshevik revolution with the goal of establishing communism in Germany? Did you know that most of the leaders were Jewish and that Jews made up a large proportion of the leadership of such communist organizations?

German revolution

Here's a podcast detailing the consequences that many suffered under the Bolsheviks

Similar thing occurred in Spain, where they burned priests and nuns alive.

Atrocity propaganda against Germany was used in WW1, where allies made up a story about Germans crucifying a Canadian soldier

https://ia801900.us.archive.org/22/items/RPC_20200507/291a.pdf

Three times they gassed me

Herman Rosenblat, 85, Dies; Made Up Holocaust Love Story

Anne Frank's step-sister and Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss claims photos of the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz are FAKE because soldiers hadn't brought cameras and were taken at other camps

Man who claimed to have escaped Auschwitz admits he lied for years

He Was a Prominent Holocaust Survivor. But His Story Was a Hoax.

Florida man who forgave camp guard may have lied about being Holocaust survivor

Curved shotgun suicide

Big compilation of screenshots from books

Other compilation, probably has duplicates

Third compilation

Fourth compilation

Skeet shooting with babies

Auschwitz Ninja warrior room of knives where the final challenge is an acid bath

Masturbation machines and holocauster

Walked out of gas chamber alive

Fourth luckiest survivor escaped because they ran out of gas

Third luckiest survivor escaped six camps

Second luckiest man in the world survives eight death camps

Luckiest man alive survived 11 death camps and three gas chamber visits

Number 201 couldn't fit into room for 200

Moonwalked out of the gas chamber

Inflating prisoners with air pumps

Escaped poisonous dogs Racoon city

Electric floor

Born in Auschwitz

Alternative reading on the forced starvation and death of millions of Germans post-WW2, Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans after World War II

Other book on same topic, After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation

[–]jacques1102[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The Russian Empire brutally repressed its national and religious minorities (with a handful of exceptions that were too useful to stomp on) during the second half of the 19th century.

Those minorities then had very good reasons to become republican, communist, or ethnic nationalist revolutionaries.

They also stomped on republican and socialist movements generally irrespective of ethnicity or religion. The later Romanov Tsars were all-in on the absolute rule of the monarchy and nobility train, not least because of the influence of the Baltic German court cliques who wielded outsized influence in the imperial political and military establishment- and turned said influence towards preserving the system that got them said outsized influence.

Basically, pretty much everyone outside it and even some of the nobility agreed by 1917 that the Tsar had to go and the absolute rule of the Romanovs had to end. If you wanted a Russian Republic, a dictatorship of the proletariat, anything in between, or simply for your people to not be treated like shit and forcibly 'Russianized', you were going to support the end of Tsar Nicholas' rule.

And of course, the Bolsheviks kinda institutionalized a rejection of religion as a general thing after toppling the Kerensky government unless it became expedient to kinda-sorta-but-not-really tolerate it (see: Stalin suddenly realizing the Russian Orthodox church could be politically useful when the Nazis invaded).

After Lenin- who wanted all religions ended- came Stalin, who was explicitly and unequivocally an antisemite despite claiming to despise all religions equally.

Antisemitism in the Soviet period was also very prevalent during the Brezhnev years.

This is all pretty exhaustively documented. We have the receipts. It wasn't until 1981 that a Soviet leader- Brezhnev himself- was even willing to openly condemn institutionalized antisemitism in the USSR, and even then it was because the Soviet leadership had finally realized that altering the way they did things generally was necessary. The Soviet Union wasn't going to survive without some degree of reform. Reducing the amount of outrageous discrimination against Jews was part of a much larger picture.

[–]EuropeanAwakening14 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

None of that changes the fact of massive Jewish over representation in the Russian Revolution. Nice try, though.

[–]jacques1102[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Where is the source for that?Literally every time this is bought up, it's always lenin and trotsky(Who got exiled by stalin.A non jew)or that other guy.Literally how would anyone know the ethnicity of anyone if jews would of hid it?Btw none of this changes the fact that the tsar destroyed his country and the people had a reason to revolt.