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Huge deaths in WWII were made possible by totalitarian ideologies which made societies insensitive to losses. It only shows how much totalitarianism sucks (and
by anovikov 13y ago
Huge deaths in WWII were made possible by totalitarian ideologies which made societies insensitive to losses. It only shows how much totalitarianism sucks (and it sucked most in case of Soviets vz Nazi which were BOTH totalitarian).
- lgieron 13y agoI wouldn't say the societes were "insensitive to losses". It's just that anyone who expressed their views would be killed/imprisoned.
- anovikov 13y agoNo there were. A lot of people volunteered knowing they will be almost certainly killed. In a democratic country it wasn't possible. And it was the main reason why so many people were killed - they were prepared to die and kill (purges of the 1930s, on both sides, devalued the human life, it was okay to report your neighbor to NKVD knowing he will be shot just out of jealousity). WWII is a crime of totalitarian regimes - on all sides - and is a lesson to learn that totalitarianism is unacceptable and never makes anyone happy.