I think it's time to start talking about Hitler

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53. I'm right with you. I went to Moscow, Leningrad, & Kiev in 1976. Memories were still

very fresh. I remember seeing bullet holes in buildings in Leningrad, with a little brass plaque next to it bearing the name of the person(s) the bullet killed. I saw bombed out churches in Kiev. I saw Babi Yar. I stood at the top of the ravine and looked down on the spot where 100,000 men, women, and children were murdered. The guides were all still talking about "The Great Patriotic War." My dad served in the Pacific, Marine Raider, 1st Marine Division, first wave at Guadalcanal. My dad's first cousin bombed Rommel's troops in North Africa, then helped push Mussolini's troops back into Italy. I too was born in 1955, and the memories were still fresh. My dad was still suffering from periodic bouts of malaria he contracted in some South Pacific hell hole.

All anybody has to do is watch Episode 1 of the awesome 1973 series, "The World at War" (available on YouTube) to see the terrifying parallels of today's Trumpites & Hitler's Brown Shirts. I see today's Republican cowards "going along" with Trump even though "he's a fool, a charlatan, a demagogue." That's just what the ruling class said about Hitler. Hitler ginned up fear and created "us vs. them", just like Trump is doing now. There are waaaay too many parallels. TrogL is right--folks our age and older remember.

If we don't stop this NOW, we are in big trouble.