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American soldiers rolling out the red carpet for internationally wanted war criminal Vladimir Putin (feddit.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When people talk about the “service” soldiers provide, remember this.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    100% they were ordered to do this.

    Now, is it on them for joining an organization that can take control of your own actions away? Yes.

    But these guys didn't roll out the red carpet because they felt like it. Ain't nobody wanna do that crap.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Didn’t work in the Nuremberg trials, so why should it matter here. Some people just like licking boots.

    Don’t you see, we SS men were not supposed to think about these things; it never even occurred to us. . . . We were all so trained to obey orders without even thinking that the thought of disobeying an order would simply never have occurred to anybody, and somebody else would have done just as well if I hadn’t. . . . I really never gave much thought to whether it was wrong. It just seemed a necessity.

    • Rudolf Höss, the commandant at Auschwitz, Nuremberg trials October 1946
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