• Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Kind of reminds me of how the Nazis rolled over a France riven with sectarian fighting so they concluded that kicking in the door with a tank spearhead would always make the whole house fall down. That, and a deep-rooted racism, made the Germans utterly unprepared for the USSR fighting tooth and nail the whole way.

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      TBH, the main reason for France’s defeat wasn’t sectarian fighting, it was that Allied command literally sent better half of their army straight into the trap, expecting Germans to repeat 1914. And then they were encircled and crushed.

    • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      it’s a very nazi type of idiocy to loudly shout for 10-20 years that you’ll murder every slav from poland to the pacific, and then get caught with your pants down when they really really dont want that to happen.

      meanwhile, most of the french could expect life to more or less go on under nazi rule. they could afford to surrender.