YSK: There are hundreds of monuments around the world to people who abetted or took part in the murder of Jews and others during the Holocaust

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• pwnicholson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All the stuff in the USA named after Von Braun doesn’t surprise me.

  Really interesting to see all the stuff named after Philippe Pétain in the USA. Looks like it was banned after him in the 1920s-1930s due to his role for France/allies in WWI. Then he became a Nazi collaborator later.

  Good reminder of why you shouldn’t name things after people who are still alive.

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  • desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Gather round while I sing you of Werner Von Braun A man whose allegiance was ruled by expedience Call him a Nazi He won’t even frown ’Nazi-Schmazi’ says Werner Von Braun.”

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    • cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      don’t say that he’s hypocritical, say rather that he’s apolitical

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I knew what and where my towns one was before I opened the article… And I was right.

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• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have a hard time believing there’s only one in Russia.

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was wondering who it was.

    Pyotr Krasnov, historian, antisemite and Nazi collaborator. Krasnov was a commander of the Don Cossacks who fought against the Communists during the Russian Civil War

    Turns out commies really don’t like Nazis so it’s not surprising at all. Especially considering the geopolitical situation around that time.

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    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Looking into the specific monument, it appears to be in someone’s front garden, and there’s been legal attempts to have it removed.

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Russia really doesn’t like Nazis, after what they did to the USSR. Rehabilitation of nazisism and holocaust denial are illegal there.

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    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah but a lot has changed since 1991. Wagner was named after Hitler’s favorite composer, and I don’t think that was a mistake. I suppose outright putting up a statue of a Nazi is still taboo there though.

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Odd because the Russian right has openly embraced neo Nazis. Russian soldiers are doing Nazi salutes or having Nazi tattoos. Nazi gangs attack people up in the cities. Etc

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism_in_Russia

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• desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have a thought, what if we idealized ideas, and buried the people who said them? I mean, everyone knows that Americans are temporarily embarrassed millionaires, but who cares who said it? Lincoln is attributed the quote, but apparently never said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time…”, who cares? The idea is solid, who said it is irrelevant.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    everyone knows that Americans are temporarily embarrassed millionaires

    someone needs to tell my bank this because I had no clue I was a millionaire.

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• Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not queer, I’m “Jew and other”

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