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  • edge [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    This is no economic basis for a major military campaign on the scale of Operation Barbarossa.

    Fascism would still need to be beaten regardless. Many people within fascist countries will be in grave danger. The Soviet Union had a moral imperative to dismantle fascism whether or not Barbarossa happened.

    Overall this wave of fascism isn’t really expansionist anyway (besides Israel), but that’s not the only threat of fascism.

    • reaper_cushions [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I’m a Central Asian person living in Germany. I’m keenly aware of the threat to the lives and livelihoods of us, a threat that has been made ever more clear since October 7th. However, in terms of destructive force that can be unleashed onto the rest of the world, this wave of fascism is shaping up to be the farce to the tragedy it was last time around.

      • QuietCupcake [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        You make excellent points about the demographic situation and the like, and it’s great to read something positive like that. But it seems really off to be downplaying the threat that fascism poses to the world. To come out and say that it doesn’t have the destructive potential this time around is just wild, considering the fascists didn’t have a nuclear arsenal last time. And that’s not the only reason that it could be even worse in a WWIII scenario than it was in WWII, with the absence of anything like the Soviet Union now, as u/edge was pointing out.