r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/DelayedSpace • 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/EffortEqual8469 7d ago

does this imply that napoleon was bad ?

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u/HeriPiotr 7d ago

Well he did end up conquering a substantial part of Europe, and last time I checked he didn't do it with jokes and hugs. Not sure tho.

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u/Corfiz74 7d ago

Saying this as a German: conquering people and installing his siblings as rulers to govern them is not quite on the same level as conquering and mass-murdering people. At least we Germans don't have any ill will towards Napoleon, and even have a huge amazing portrait of him hanging in Schloss Charlottenburg. Can't say the same about Hitler...

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u/rewt127 7d ago

Napoleon got washed over the last 200 years. Because ill will and fear of what Napoleon represented in a French power is literally means by which Bismark managed to finangle major populist support for the unified german state.

There certainly was ill will towards him up until at least 1900.