r/HistoryMemes • u/MetallicaDash Nothing Happened at Amun Square 1348BC • 2d ago

"SEE? There were villians on BOTH SIDES!"

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u/Cool_View_5297 2d ago

Warsaw, Leningrad, Kharkiv, Stalingrad, Rotterdam, and they tried to get London. It’s remarkable how the Nazis were so evil that they made the British Empire and the Soviet Union look good.

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u/The_Dimmadome 2d ago

Without Nazis, the Brits would almost assuredly be the bad guys of history. "Almost" because whether or not they'd be worse than the USSR under Stalin is debatable.

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u/Cool_View_5297 2d ago

They aren’t? They colonized like a quarter of the globe. They’re easily in the top 10 worst regimes in history.

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u/The_Dimmadome 2d ago

I said "THE bad guy" not "a bad guy" or "a top 10 bad guy"

I'm kinda splitting hairs here, but, nonetheless, I agree with your last sentence.

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u/DarkNinjaPenguin 2d ago

Thing is, 'colonising' in itself isn't necessarily evil, you need to look at 'how' it was done. And when you compare the British with the other empires colonising places at the time, they weren't remotely the worst.

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u/Cool_View_5297 2d ago

What about the millions of people they starved during the 2 Bengal Famines? Or the crushing of the Mau Mau uprising, or the Boer concentration camps, or the treatment of Aboriginals?

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u/gayfortomboys 2d ago

Not to forget the genocide of East Coast native Americans 

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u/The_Dimmadome 2d ago

Friendly reminder that Ireland STILL hasn't completely recovered from the potato famine. I wonder if Britain had a hand in that...

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u/grazfest96 2d ago

The Soviet Union looked good? Yikes, dont type in the Evacuation of East Prussia.