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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 55 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Well instead of dealing with their fascist problem after WWII, they decided to repress (and sometimes kill) the most reliable antifascists - the leftists.

That said some countries that objectively did purge their fasists seem to still have that problem today. Perhaps the theory that capitalism creates fascism as it declines predicts this.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Capitalism creates an environment of fear and danger and promotes of level of individual responsibility that alienates people from everyone else. Even people who are well off today are afraid of losing advantages and being hung out to dry by the very same uncaring system they keep supporting.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

We also literally imported their scientists

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

While some potential recruits had served in Nazi forces and possibly committed war crimes, Wisner believed that their shared opposition to communism outweighed these past actions.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

After directly inspiring their eugenics efforts.

[–] Awkwardparticle@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you referring to purging facists after Nazi Germany fell?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Haha no, they didn't purge shit. I'm referring for example to the Russian Communist Party of the USSR killing people. And I'm not attaching a moral value on the methods, just looking at it as objective removal of fascist people and then observing modern day Russia. I think there are other similar examples. I imagine Hungary also purged any fascist they could smell ubder the commie rule, haven't checked, and yet here we are today.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Well, I guess the Soviet Union didn't really help there.