Just came across this absolute trashfire of a book by an American prof. I know these revisionist takes about WWII are a dime a dozen… but this one seems particularly egregious in its claims that Stalin masterminded World War II and that the only reason for the USSR’s success was that the stupefied Allies fell for his dastardly plan.
This level of brazen stupidity and/or disingenuousness borders on incomprehensible.
I know that feel.
:doomer:
I’m not even a historian. Most of my knowledge comes from high school, video games, tabletop games, skimming Wikipedia, and reading white supremacist/neo-nazi brainworm shit (as examples of things NOT to say or that are definitely wrong). Yet every time I turn around, there’s some new trend that’s re-worded Holocaust denial, anticommunist contrarianism blaming the war on Marx, or downplaying crimes committed outside of Germany by other Axis members.
Like I’m a total idiot and then I see people unironically advocating for clean SS because they’re stupid dumbfuck libs that can’t filter nazi justifications.
Yeah, as a fellow idiot non-historian, it makes me sort of uncomfortable constantly wading into this shit bog, but I’m not pushing some wacky theory about how Bukharin was actually an Imperial Japanese collaborator or something, I’m literally just talking about how Mein Kampf is filled with discussions about conquering Eastern Europe and then they started conquering Eastern Europe and the Soviets knew they were preparing to invade, while these redditor fucks are claiming “nah, Stalin and Hitler were allies until Hitler bamboozled him”.