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Thread #84637   Message #1564913
Posted By: Paul Burke
16-Sep-05 - 10:44 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Flieg, Deutsche Fahne Flieg
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Flieg, Deutsche Fahne Flieg
That Nazi songs are repelled, but Communist songs are welcome here is a bloody nonsense; might be that only better red songs are listed here.

This idea that nazis and communitsts are equivalent is persistently promoted by the right and lazily accepted by liberals. It's simply not true. Stalin certainly perverted the Russian revolution; but the communists, the supporters of that revolution, were not fighting to achieve the purges, mass murders, gulags and oppression that he imposed on them after 1935. Exactly the opposite- liberation of all was their goal. From about 1923 to 1932 Russia was reasonably successfully working towards this.

Whereas the destruction of the Jews and enslavement of Slavs was the openly stated aim of the NS from its foundation. Many Germans accepted this as the way to achieve economic prosperity for their country, and I like to believe that most did not envisage that it would lead to the Final Solution, but to an ethnic cleansing by migration. At best they were ignorant and selfish.