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Re:India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistan... by ashoeafoot on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @09:32AM (#43915465)
the nazis came as far as they did because a ton of peoole greeted them as liberators and joined their new oppressors to fight for a free homeland. You dont do that unless you really hate the empire you are imprisoned in..
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Re:India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistan... by dfadsadsf on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @12:32PM (#43917744)
Germans were pretty good at exploiting ethnic grievances in multiple countries - Czhech vs Slovak, Croats vs Serbs, Bulgars vs Greek and Hungarian vs everyone that have nothing to do oppression and fight for homeland.

People underestimate what a clusterfuck of ethnicities pre WW2 Eastern Europe was. Resettlement after WW2 created much cleaner ethnic maps and arguably the reason we had 80 years of mostly peace (Yugoslavia was last country with mix of ethnicities and wars in 90ies cleaned up it too).

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