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I think the story is always about a charismatic leader whose followers get so dependent that they can't even imagine living without that person. Then when the l
by maxxxxx 8y ago
I think the story is always about a charismatic leader whose followers get so dependent that they can't even imagine living without that person. Then when the leader's ambitions don't work out the leader decides it's better not to live and the followers will kill themselves. Some of Hitler's followers killed themselves (and their children like Goebbels), people in Waco didn't try to escape. It's a weird psychology but I think it has happened many times in history.
- crispyporkbites 8y agoThey see their followers as an extension of themselves, so when they die, their followers die too.
- jacobush 8y agoWaco has its own layer of weird to it - people also didn't escape because doing so could get you strafed by the FBI.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoHitlers followers didn't want to be captured by the Russians.
- stcredzero 8y agoThe Soviet followers didn't want to be exterminated by the Nazis, and the rhetoric that the Nazis were waging a war of extermination happened to be true in that instance.