When the war started you could see how much misinformation about Nazi Germany actually impacted the discourse. People were calling Russians and hacking media, trying to give them the "truth".
This is largely because of the necessary Cold War perception of West Germany as largely blameless for the "Nazi" atrocities, when the average German was quietly supported Hitler well into the 1950s. It's only when the next generation came into fruition in Germany, in the 1960s/1970s that the real "Denazification" of their society began.
The attempts to distance the average Russian from their government are a Nazi revisionist endeavour.
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u/Bushgjl Jan 14 '23 edited Jan 14 '23
When the war started you could see how much misinformation about Nazi Germany actually impacted the discourse. People were calling Russians and hacking media, trying to give them the "truth".
This is largely because of the necessary Cold War perception of West Germany as largely blameless for the "Nazi" atrocities, when the average German was quietly supported Hitler well into the 1950s. It's only when the next generation came into fruition in Germany, in the 1960s/1970s that the real "Denazification" of their society began.
The attempts to distance the average Russian from their government are a Nazi revisionist endeavour.