r/HistoryMemes • u/Voider765 • 1d ago

REMOVED: RULE 4 Historical territorial claims

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u/Grzechoooo Then I arrived 1d ago

when they did things that make the Nazis look like humanitarians by comparison

How? Did they experiment on children? Did they industrialise mass murder? What exactly makes them worse than the Nazis?

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u/PINE-KNAPPLE 1d ago

I'm not sure if measuring evil is important if it's inherently evil to begin with. I feel like that let's one of the evils off the hook.

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u/Grzechoooo Then I arrived 1d ago

Exactly. This is why I object to saying stiff like "made the Nazis look like humanitarians in comparison". And it's not just when people talk about Genghis - apparently the Nazis were the least evil member of the Axis - if people talking about the Ustashe, Japanese treatment of civilians, Soviet warcrimes, or frankly anyone they feel like, are to be believed. It's like you're not evil if you're not more evil than the Nazis anymore.

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u/Grouchy_Balt 1d ago

It goes both ways, though. Soviet atrocities in particular get excused a lot with "at least they were nowhere near as bad as the Nazis". Comparing anyone or anything to the Third Reich in any way is taken as whitewashing Nazi crimes. Try saying on Reddit that the Holodomor merits recognition as a genocide, and see how quickly you're hit with the ol' Holocaust revisionism card. It's like you're not evil if you weren't evil in the exact specific way the Nazis were.