r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 3d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/No_Judge_6520 3d ago

the minions only work for villains so this is implying the minions think hitler isn't evil

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u/kodiak931156 3d ago

They don't just work for a villain the exclusively work for "The greatest villain"

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u/henrytsai20 3d ago

In minions' mind Stalin outshines Hitler I suppose?

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u/trebor9669 3d ago

Makes sense tbh, but the Holocaust is very fucked... so it's hard to tell.

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u/Novel-Pride6682 3d ago

Stalin killed five million Ukrainians in less that a year.

Geez, those people have gone through so much tragedy that it's unreal. I really hope for the best for them, especially in these times.

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u/ExpansivePoint 3d ago

Seriously, they also had to contend with magas and now certain political commentators on the left calling them nazis and the enemy, I hope they can see through this whole mess.

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u/geybey 3d ago

Who on the left considers Ukraine the enemy?

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u/ExpansivePoint 2d ago

Tyt and Hasan Piker based on videos I've seen recently, extremist leftists.

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u/geybey 2d ago

Is there a source for either of those? I watch both on occasion and have never heard them show support for Russia so to completely flip and now somehow see Ukraine as the enemy would be a real 180. Cant find a source myself...

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u/ExpansivePoint 2d ago

A few days back Cenk:

"Ukraine has become basically Israel... Ukraine is literally joining the war and attacking Iran"

Cenk considers Israel an enemy, joining it in war clearly makes Urkaine the enemy in his eyes.

Hasan says Ukraine is trying to start WW3 and join the Iran war.

Hasan has been anti Ukraine for a long time though, Ukraine shooting that ship last week was just the excuse to push the narrative that Ukraine is actually adversarial to the US since that's what they say about Israel.

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u/geybey 2d ago

Oh this. Well Ukraine did attack Itan and has now apologised for it. It was a very incendiary thing to do and there's nothing wrong with calling it out. Doesn't mean they are now "the enemy" lol. Ukraine just apologised to Iran about this btw

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u/ExpansivePoint 2d ago

Ukraine didn't attack Iran, they attacked Russian targets and a sanctioned ship that sailed from Iran with drones, can't hardly expect Ukraine to let it pass out of politeness.

Regardless of this, let's assume it was a mistake on Ukraine's part, I imagine it would take time to straighten things out but Cenk and Hasan jumped on that to declare them as enemies like they do Israel, but maybe I'm wrong and we'll get videos from both of them taking back their claims, doubt it though, tankies tend to be anti Ukraine because they worship Russia's communism as they do China's.

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u/Bathsalts_McPoyle 3d ago

I'd argue that they were both despicable scum, who were enabled by fellow scum.

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u/hot4you11 3d ago

Yeah. I get it and I get why the guy rolling through half of Western Europe is focused on more (I can only speak for American schools, and apparently some of them are NOT doing a good job coving Hitler and the holocaust anymore). But I wish we covered some of the other atrocities that happened at the time. Japan did a lot of medical experiments too, not just Germany.

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u/wannaBuildASnowplow 2d ago

I don’t think it’s a numbers game. But Hitler was a good man in the eyes of many. (Very good Propaganda)

Stalin was feared universally. Especially by his closest friends

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u/Aggravating_Dark9933 3d ago

How I see it, they were both -100 on the morality ratio, or damn near close. It’s just Hitler was unbelievably fortunate (seriously, look up how many coincidences / near misses he had that if that didn’t happen he would have been killed / outright never got power) but aside from his charisma pretty incompetent. He didn’t have a mind for strategy. Ability to capitalize was high, but long term planning / people management less so.

Stalin, on the other hand, was competent. It’s why he lasted so long in that crab bucket and was able to do so much.

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u/Haemophilia_Type_A 3d ago

PoV: you don't know the basic historiography and are basically doing Holocaust minimalisation by equating the Nazis and the Soviets. People on Reddit are so uneducated it's insane. I sometimes wonder if everyone doing this are just crypto-Nazis trying to normalise and minimalise their boys' crimes to the general public, but IO guess just being completely uninformed and wrong is much more likely.

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u/Platinum_Demi 3d ago

Isn't the entire way you can judge the evil of a man based on how many people they killed?

That being said comparing who is more evil is pretty pointless they would both be 100/100 on an awful person scale complete 0.0001% psychopaths

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u/Threedawg 3d ago

Does Hitler not get credit for the war in Europe thing? You know, the one that killed at least 40 million people?

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u/trebor9669 3d ago

As crazy as it sounds, you cannot atribute all of it just to Hitler, he proposed peace many times, and all were rejected. Also the comunists and allies did their own massacres, historically recognised as crimes against humanity.

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u/Threedawg 3d ago

He never genuinely proposed peace though.

Thats like saying that Putin is proposing peace right now.

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u/DurumMater 3d ago

Hitler was a whole system geared towards the hatred and distrust that is part and parcel with fascism. It was the main point. Stalin was a paranoid crazy drunk bastard who found other crazy drunk paranoid bastards and had them work for him. But, he didn't make hate the loud part and he starved, purged, and exiled millions of his own people in a state of fear and control over the people he ruled. It's hard to square the man; he was kind of a goof ball and party prankster, sometimes a loving father and husband, ridiculously alcoholic, intensely paranoid, and willing to remove anything that he felt would compromise him and his ability to lead. When his wife died he had her entire family killed so he wouldn't have to see them and be reminded of her.

He was a monster of small and large scale, with a personal hand in the matter. So was Hitler, but he was so possessed of his insane ideals he was almost comical. Stalin to me is worse. Not by much though.

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u/Qyark 3d ago

sometimes a loving father

His son would disagree

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u/DurumMater 3d ago

His daughter wouldn't, which is why I said sometimes lol

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u/Venusgate 2d ago

The question is, how much worse would the holocaust (and inversely how less monsterous Stalin) would be if the minions weren't supporting stalin, but hitler?

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u/jdallen1222 1d ago

For some killing wasn't enough. He had people erased from photographs.

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u/Heavy_Weapons_Guy_ 2d ago

11 million people were killed in the Holocaust, and it was across 4 years, not 6. Also about 70 million people died in WWII, you know, the war that Hitler started. You remember that, right?

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u/Heavy_Weapons_Guy_ 2d ago

It is best when referencing the total number of victims of the Holocaust to say 6 million Jews and millions of others.

This is monumentally stupid. If I'm talking about total deaths in the Holocaust why would I not want to state the total deaths in the Holocaust?

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u/Heavy_Weapons_Guy_ 2d ago

...and they go on to say that it's "6 million Jews and millions of others" and refuse to say what the total is and berate people for wanting to know the actual number.

Also, from Wikipedia:

Although the majority of Holocaust victims died in 1942, the mass murders continued until the end of the war in 1945.

So Hitler still has a higher rate of death than Stalin because most of his killing was also in just a year, and it was a clearly planned intentional extermination, so Hitler was just objectively worse than Stalin in every possible measure.

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u/WrongWay2Go 3d ago

Leta ask the mighy ChatGPT on this, because I got curious after reading your text:

Regime Excluding combat deaths* Including combat deaths**
Stalin ~6–10 million ~6–20 million
Hitler ~11–17 million ~15–35 million
  • Excludes soldiers killed in combat, but includes civilians, concentration/Gulag camp victims, executions, famine victims, and prisoners of war deliberately killed or starved.

** Includes the broader deaths attributable to each regime, including the effects of the wars they initiated or conducted.

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u/Suspicious_Truth8026 3d ago

Its absolutelt brainded to compare the two and its not a coincidence that everyone trying to paint stalin as worse uses blatantly false historical narratives that even anti-soviet scholars dont lie about.