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[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 89 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is he really trying to equate the Russians with the SS despite them fighting the Russians alongside the literal SS

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 81 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Is he really trying to equate the Russians with the SS despite them fighting the Russians alongside the literal SS

It's such a mixed metaphor that it doesn't make sense. Putin is literally Hitler, but thanks Hitler for fighting the Soviets in WW2. All around just a massivehitler-detector

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

Putin is Hitler’s bad half. Hitler is Hitler’s good half

[–] drinkinglakewater@hexbear.net 71 points 11 months ago (3 children)

So let me get this straight, they're adopting Maoist Standard English and using it to imply Russia is evil Nazis, but the actual Nazis were fine????

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 43 points 11 months ago

Got it in one, their replies are just as unhinged

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 36 points 11 months ago

Everything is nazis except actual nazis, who are fine

[–] muddi@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago

That's just how fascism works, there are telltale characteristics: adopting the language of the left, rewriting history, identifying a vague national "enemy" etc

[–] Stoatmilk@hexbear.net 50 points 11 months ago

Oops, I accidentally had nazi stuff in my tweet supporting ethnic cleansing

[–] the_kid@hexbear.net 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] plinky@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

Well, nafo posters aren't a good indicator. But they are bad in other ways

Although they have nice education and safety net, which they are only starting to tear down

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 38 points 11 months ago

Oops! All Nazis!

[–] windowlicker@hexbear.net 38 points 11 months ago

oh no! my anti-communism got mixed in with nazism! i wonder how this happened!

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

I made a big mistake tweeting a map with Nazi names. But you know what I'm not ashamed of? Allying with the Nazis.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

Finns are chuds confirmed

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the Soviets should've occupied your stupid fucking country, Stalin was a kitten

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago

fuck that. just sink the whole country, leave the north for the sami people and nothing of value would be lost

[–] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can someone pretty please give me a tldr about Finland in WW2?

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 61 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This was their airforce until 2020.

[–] davel@hexbear.net 48 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] red_stapler@hexbear.net 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ackshually the swastika was a gift to the Finnish Air Force from a Herman Goring’s brother-in-law who later founded the Swedish Nazi party so it can’t represent the same beliefs. not-hillary

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

Also the same guy that inspired actual Nazis to use swastika.

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[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The aside glance of the dude on the far right (pun intended) makes this look like a poster for a comedy movie.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Also the nervous look of the guy actually holding the flag like he is just realizing what he's holding.

[–] AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

record scratch You're probably wondering how I got here...

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

According to this it is from before the Nazis were a thing. So maybe a little misleading but also weird they dragged their feet to change it.

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Were doing contacts with nazis in 1938, stalin decided its too close to leningrad for comfort and that working people of finland will greet them as liberators. Half assed guaido government, didn't go that well, decided just to take territory too close to leningrad. Finns then actively helped siege of leningrad and were allied to nazis.

Then they decided to chill out after germany was defeated.

[–] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Thanks.

It's not gonna surprise you but the reddit narrative seems to be that both USSR and Germany wanted to colonize them so they chose the lesser evil which was the side that committed the holocaust.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 36 points 11 months ago

Finnish behavior during 1921-1928 was ... very questionable in karelia. So even they weren't actively allied to nazis, it was still dodgy.

But stalin also fucked up by creating puppet government without even doing anything, its like "hello, this is your new government, also we bomb you now".

If only ussr had high tech cia infiltration methods sadness

[–] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago

The reds losing the civil war and its consequences

[–] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

The number of people who think that the USSR was worse than the Nazis is really high. As widely debunked as it is, the Black Book of Communism must be recognized as a successful propaganda piece.

[–] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I wouldn't call Finns chilled out.

If you took a random Finn, any single one, and put them in a room with Hitler, Mussolini (or some other fascist, I dunno), and a random Russian, plus a gun with two bullets, they'd double-tap the random Russian and ask for more ammo.

The only people with a more deep hatred and revanchism against Russia is Poland.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

*Were chilled out till ~80s

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

There used to be a ton of communist student radicals in the 60s

Boomers are still butthurt about them to this day

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

I think Estonia might be more anti-Russia than Finland. Not sure about Lithuania and Latvia but they’re up there, too. But hey it’s not a competition 🤠

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[–] reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The ruSSians are as bad as the Nazis who were FINE, actually!

[–] AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

"Capitalizing SS to draw parallels with the SS. Who where good actually."

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago

So there are a lot of issues here, but praising the Nazis while saying "ruSSian" to criticize Russia baffles me.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago
[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

CAN SOMEONE POST A FINNISH PERSON BEING COOL OR AT LEAST NOT CRINGE ON TWITTER FOR ONCE

THERE HAS TO BE AT LEAST ONE

oooaaaaaaauhhh

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Finnish people being cringe in online places is very common, sorry to say. Present company excluded obviously meow-hug

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You'd just think that out of 6 million people there'd be a couple of non-embarrassing ones posting on English twitter doomer

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

They are cringe on twitter, but there is and always has been a lot of Finnish communists. They really had to kill a lot of them to stop Finland joining the Russian Revolution.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Finnish Bolshevik? Does he have a twitter?

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[–] Sator_is_Tense@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

without Germans help at WWII

"without the help of my own govt's direct nazi collaboration"

[–] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

remember the help we got from the literal nazis

those damn ruSSians

Both praising the nazis and using them to villify others big-cool

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago
[–] wombat@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

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[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

the bad thing about nazis is the symbols they used. i agree with all their beliefs, of course.

[–] FoolishFool@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

It looks like a horsey.

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