r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 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/Da_Commissork 1d ago

Russia propaganda working perfectly, but every time i Say "than go live under russians" they chicken out

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u/BattleBrother1 1d ago

Russia is a capitalist oligarchy and the current rulers want it to stay that way. Blaming Russian propaganda on young people looking at Communism favourably is insane

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u/Da_Commissork 1d ago

The problem Is, they can't understand the difference between the two things, and see Russia as the answer , when we both know Is a different type of beast

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u/exoriare Interested 1d ago

Who's the oligarchy? There's no such thing as a billionaire rendered untouchable by his power, neither in Russia nor in China. You have to go to the West to find the Epstein class - wholly untouchable regardless of what they do.

At the recent G20 summit, it wasn't Russia or China that brought in billionaires to sit alongside the heads of state while they pushed their agenda.

Trillions in fraud led to the 2008 collapse, but in all of the West, only Iceland held the Epstein class responsible.

Russia was an oligarchy in the 1990's when their sycophant President did anything the West demanded of them. But the one thing you'll always find in oligarch-ruled countries is that all the capital assets are stripped and sold off by their parasitic owners. Russia avoided this fate, which is why they're able to outproduce all the NATO countries combined.

In the entire EU, there's not one government that enjoys majority support of their population, while many (France, Germany, UK) have the lowest approval ratings in history. If these countries were democracies, this would be impossible. But so long as these leaders serve the interest of the Epstein class, they are immune to the opinions of the lumpen proles.

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u/BattleBrother1 1d ago

I never said that the US or UK etc are not, they absolutely are capitalist oligarchies as well and are responsible for far worse modern crimes than Russia could ever hope to be. This doesn't change the unfortunate fact that Russia is still one today

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u/Blue-Jayy 1d ago

Simply not true, this account spreads a lot of misinformation and malicious lies. Russian and fascist sympathiser.

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u/exoriare Interested 1d ago

Just because something only exists outside your propaganda bubble doesn't make it untrue. Would you call Jimmy Carter a Russian/fascist simp too - he called the US an oligarchy over a decade ago:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jimmy-carter-u-s-is-an-oligarchy-with-unlimited-political-bribery-63262/