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Originally Posted by Caligari
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Close.
More precisely, this was about Lithuanian partisans slaughtering what they saw as the authors of their economic misery in 1941. Specifically, they were exacting revenge on their (then) recent communist overlords of whom a number of locally prominent Jews were included. The Nazi's, of course, promptly turned this local event into an anti Jewish thing and exploited it for their own propaganda purposes.
After the war, this unfortunate event was then (incorrectly) included with the litany of subsequent Nazi executed and/or inspired anti Jewish crimes in Russia.
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Originally Posted by Caligari
not sure what the significance to thread is though, other than economic collapse = societal collapse maybe
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Precisely.
It's about a recently prosperous people reacting angrily to their sudden impoverishment.
Check your history, Lithuania was a very rich country between 1920 and 1939.
Any population with an even ounce of testosterone can be counted on to do something similar... for better or worse.
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anyone who now counts on the USA populace to go off whimpering like wounded dogs does so at their own peril.
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