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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Nov 2018
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    How come WW 1 had no big-name charismatic villains?

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      2. Shane Johnson‏ @AlwaysaGoodday1 11 Nov 2018
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        The Kaiser?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Nov 2018
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        did he ever rise to hitler level?

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      1. Lev Esch‏ @Lev_Esch 11 Nov 2018
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        Because all the villains in WW1 all deliberately operated in the shadows.

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      1. Gordon Mohr ꧁ 👁 👁꧂‏ @gojomo 11 Nov 2018
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        slow/written media couldn't generate suitable charisma/emotion/hate? stakes weren't really ideological or worldwide? gavrilo princip?

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      2. Kelly Digges‏ @kellydigges 11 Nov 2018
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        It did have the Kaiser, who was a dangerous lunatic prone to sudden “brainstorms” that sent his subordinates scrambling to soothe rattled diplomats and craft new policy. (Sound familiar?)

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      3. Kelly Digges‏ @kellydigges 11 Nov 2018
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        The Kaiser fit the bill at the time, but it was so long ago. There isn’t footage of him like there is of Hitler, and we don’t teach WWI or memorialize it like we do WWII. ‘Til the centennial I had to repeat myself when I said I’m a WWI buff because everyone assumed I’d said WWII.

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      1. mtraven‏ @mtraven 11 Nov 2018
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        The Red Baron (charismatic, but not really villainous, just an enemy, esp to Snoopy)

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      1. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 11 Nov 2018
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        Most people have just forgotten them The Red Baron for one

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      1. Albert Lee‏ @FSKrieger22 11 Nov 2018
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        Conrad von Hötzendorf and Moltke the Younger. The Young Turks and the perpetrators of the Rape of Belgium They're overshadowed by what would come later

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      2. mark safranski‏ @zenpundit 11 Nov 2018
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        Well the there was the Hun imagery - Rape of Belgium, unrestricted submarine warfare and all that but the mass atrocities against civilians seen in WWII were not practiced. As Keegan wrote, “a curiously civilized war” in some ways for such a staggering death toll

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        The scythe cut down young men of all major European countries but not across society as a whole except maybe in Serbia and Russia, the latter more to Revolution and civil war than WWI

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