• Riverside@reddthat.com
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    If we’re fine with resorting to violence to get what we want, we’re no better than them

    This person doesn’t know how Nazism was defeated, and how tens of millions of people in Eastern Europe were saved from genocide by military might.

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      It was defeated by rebuilding the country afterwards. A lesson we learned from the aftermath of WWI that seems to have been forgotten.

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          After the same thing that happened to them in WWI. The rebuild kept WWIII from happening another couple decades later and rehabilitated several despotic countries drunk on their own brand of patriotism. It was the real winner of WWII.

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            The real winner of WW2 is the Soviet Union, which saved tens of millions of lives from Nazi extermination and destroyed Nazism all the way to Berlin.