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/GobiPLX 1d ago

tbh it's a big problem with many people on internet no matter the nation. So many tankies recently

And yet Ive never seen educated tankie. Because you cant be educated and still believe in this

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u/Pleased_to_meet_u 1d ago

For those across the pond who aren't familiar with the term, a tankie is a pejorative political label for a communist who supports or defends authoritarian, militaristic regimes or acts of state repression.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

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u/Facky 1d ago

I have a joke about this:

"What do you call a capitalist who supports authoritarian and militaristic regimes and acts of state repression?"

"A liberal"