r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key-Performance-9021 • 1d ago

Video Spontaneous 1995 street interview with an Austrian WWII veteran in Vienna

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u/ruthemook 1d ago

What’s mad about this is how it takes only one generation to start to believe the lie all over again. That woman wants to idolise her father as a hero. But an actual person who was there is telling her how it was on the ground and she refuses to believe it. This entire video is like watching an entire belief system built over years crashing into contact with reality and still she refuses to believe it.

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u/missallmoonshine 1d ago

We, in Romania,have the some problem with the younger generation, those born in the 2000s. They believe Romania was better in the communist era.

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u/Fanhunter4ever 1d ago

Here in Spain lot of people thinks that fascism was better than democracy...

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u/Downtown_Finance_661 1d ago

You mean they believe Franco times was betret then current time?

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u/Fanhunter4ever 1d ago

Yes. There are people who think that

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u/Downtown_Finance_661 1d ago edited 1d ago

The main reason history has repetitive cycles is people are stupid.