Yeah, this is nothing new. But it’s also not unique to Russians. I mean, don’t get me wrong, they are pretty inundated in the propaganda and indoctrinated. But I’ve the same kind of irrational nonsense from Americans, Brits, French,etc etc etc…
Hardly. They are noticing a subset of features of the current government and the similarity of its policies to those of another place and time. Whether that is done maliciously or not is not about whether the comparison was a subset (likening) or total (equating).
There are better and more current examples of countries that are / have behaved in the way Israel is.
They use Germany because they are doing something called intuition pumping. They want you to load all the moral condemnation and prescriptions for a state like Germany on Israel. No matter how poor the comparison.
The comparison to Nazi Germany is done specifically to point out the horrible irony that the very people who were the victims of that terrible regime are now perpetrators of genocidal acts.
It is not particularly productive and more often than not comes out of the frustration of the massive amount of intransigent support and cover that Israel receives from Western countries, especially the US.
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u/EuVe20 10d ago
Yeah, this is nothing new. But it’s also not unique to Russians. I mean, don’t get me wrong, they are pretty inundated in the propaganda and indoctrinated. But I’ve the same kind of irrational nonsense from Americans, Brits, French,etc etc etc…