The presence of Bosnian genocide deniers on the modern day left should put to bed any doubts that the tankie ideology, had Hitler never angered the Soviet Union, would have absolutely come around to "anti-imperialist hero Hitler" at some point.
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Replying to @CelticAnarchy
The thing that really ticked off Orwell and inspired the stuff in 1984 about the "memory hole" etc is that for the duration of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact the Soviet party line WAS to say nice things about Hitler
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CelticAnarchy
All the obedient British M-Ls DID say that "Hitler, while he has his flaws, is standing up to the Anglo-American capitalist machine" etc Then after Hitler broke the pact they flipped on a dime and suddenly cared about invasion and genocide again and he was a monster now
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And - possibly the worst part - either ignored all the stuff they said between 1939-41 or, worse, said that it was all a very clever, strategic ruse and they were all only saying it to lull Hitler into complacency as part of Comrade Stalin's masterful chess game
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And if you expressed any skepticism about the authenticity of this narrative you were a naive pawn of the Anglo-American imperialist capitalist machine etc etc
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Like this is what the "We have always been at war with Eastasia" thing is an extremely direct and not at all subtle reference to This is very clearly the start of Orwell's "break with the left"
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And yeah okay nuance and realpolitik and whatever but you really can't blame him over this because Jesus fucking Christ we're talking about Hitler
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