A lot of the commentary on Nazism was that it'd be wrong to call it the result of some uniquely German tendency
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Yeah Germany had a history of antisemitism and of glorifying military values but really what European nation didn't
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Germany also produced great humane philosophers and poets, was a center of music and art
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Before Nazism, the SPD was arguably the most successful left-wing party in Europe
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Before Nazism, Weimar Germany was one of the most culturally liberal places in Europe
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That's what Cabaret is about, the Brits and Americans who were coming to Berlin to get away from the uptight censors at home
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Nazism was about the backlash against that, the desire of angry reactionaries to take a big complex culture and crush it down to size
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(I even read an article abt the Nazi tendency to alter the German language, which is famously florid and full of long run on compounds)
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(The Nazi subculture tended to avoid such formulations and replace them with short staccato abbreviations. Like, well, "Nazi")
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(That cultural tic was one thing Orwell borrowed for 1984 -- imagining Newspeak as Nazi-jargon translated to English)
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Anyway the point is flattening justified critiques of Russia then and now into "Russia is an inherently autocratic place" is dumb
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It isn't in the same category as actual racism but it's national chauvinism it's wrong and you look dumb
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