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NuclearDem

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7. Exactly.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 16, 2014, 04:58 PM

Sep 2014

My grandfather was conscripted into the Wehrmacht during Barbarossa, and frankly, he wasn't all too unhappy about someone fighting the illegal Soviet occupation of his homeland.

Doesn't mean I sympathize with Naziism or fascism at all, but it's usually a lot more complicated than most people realize.

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