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4n41y4no5@crazypeople.online 3 weeks agoCongo had giant work camps.
Pretty much every ideology have commited awful shit. Nazism is the only ideology where genocide is the end goal of the state.
illi@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Yes, I’m aware nazis and communists were not the only ones doing terrible stuff. That doesn’t make it right
4n41y4no5@crazypeople.online 3 weeks ago
Not the point. Nazis were the only ones putting people in ovens. Gulag’s endgoal never went to straight up kill them. Belgians endgoals wasn’t to kill Congolese, it was to make money. Hell even israelis hide their genocide behind security concerns or whatever.
Nazi Germany’s endgoal was to eradicate non Aryans and they dedicated entire industrial complex to racial hygiene. As such, it’s a step beyond all the gulags, starvation, carpet bombing, terror, March to nowhere you want. They shoved people in fucking oven.
illi@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I can’t disagree and I’m aware these are not on the same level. Not a perfect analogy for sure, but still a place people went to die to.
Nazis camps were also not all the same. Auschwitz was a labor camp for example - which yes, still had gas chambrers and ovens. But then there was the like of Birkenau not far from there and thats where people were actually sent to die. It is clear which of those is more evil, but you can’t say one of them wasn’t evil just because the other was more evil