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by bsdpufferfish 918 days ago
Was there more emotional rhetoric than is otherwise used in politics?

Personally the “hitler mind controlled everyone with his speach” theory that I was told in the 90s just isn’t convincing. Facism was in the zeitgeist around the world.
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flashback2199 918 days ago
No mind control, he said what people wanted to hear after losing WWI

Mind control was how Yuri helped the USSR win the Cold war in Red Alert 2 (joke ;)

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bsdpufferfish 918 days ago
> he said what people wanted to hear after losing WWI

In other words, they believed it. It wasn’t a false manipulation.

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PoignardAzur 917 days ago
They believed the "stabbed in the back" narrative like the US establishment believed there were weapons of mass destruction in Irak.

It was a motivated belief, thoroughly uninformed by rational thought, and maintaining and spreading that belief took no small amount of blatant lies and cynicism.

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bsdpufferfish 917 days ago
Stabbed in the back, doesn't explain why facism was a popular world view across Europe and Japan.
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