I thought that these were already common knowledge but now I guess not.
That’s Poland official propaganda tactic which is actually quite shrewd. They still maintain the knowledge of nazi crimes, but at the same time downplay them by comparing with Soviet Union every time, and while the comparisons are outright idiotic, ike 01.09 vs 17.09, Holocaust vs Katyn, destruction of Warsaw vs. “they did not helped”, they are constantly repeated for the last 34 years, to the point you cannot think “nazi bad” without “but communists equally bad”, and then they actually move the goalpost by saying things about “45 years of occupation” and shit about the 1944-53 civil war. And of course the volume of anticommunism in public space is many times higher that antinazism, and that antinazism only include specifically German nazis, their puppets like Finland or Hungary, not to mention modern nazis, are whitewashed with full speed ahead.
They know they cannot just erase the harted for nazis and replace it with hatred for communists with one stroke, and they cannot completely outright lie about what nazis did since it’s in schools and books, so they are doing it slowly. Though by now it’s pretty advanced, for example even the celebrations of the defense of Westerplatte from invading Germans in the 09.1939, important heroic moment in polish history, can be done without even mentioning the Germans once, but with long tirades on “USSR bad”.
And yes, i believe it’s an organized campaign being in motion for decades because it looks like that, even despite Poland is notorious for not being able to organize anything properly (they also fucked up with Ukraine somewhat by allowing and even promoting antibanderite publications).
That’s Poland official propaganda tactic which is actually quite shrewd. They still maintain the knowledge of nazi crimes, but at the same time downplay them by comparing with Soviet Union every time, and while the comparisons are outright idiotic, ike 01.09 vs 17.09, Holocaust vs Katyn, destruction of Warsaw vs. “they did not helped”, they are constantly repeated for the last 34 years, to the point you cannot think “nazi bad” without “but communists equally bad”, and then they actually move the goalpost by saying things about “45 years of occupation” and shit about the 1944-53 civil war. And of course the volume of anticommunism in public space is many times higher that antinazism, and that antinazism only include specifically German nazis, their puppets like Finland or Hungary, not to mention modern nazis, are whitewashed with full speed ahead.
They know they cannot just erase the harted for nazis and replace it with hatred for communists with one stroke, and they cannot completely outright lie about what nazis did since it’s in schools and books, so they are doing it slowly. Though by now it’s pretty advanced, for example even the celebrations of the defense of Westerplatte from invading Germans in the 09.1939, important heroic moment in polish history, can be done without even mentioning the Germans once, but with long tirades on “USSR bad”.
And yes, i believe it’s an organized campaign being in motion for decades because it looks like that, even despite Poland is notorious for not being able to organize anything properly (they also fucked up with Ukraine somewhat by allowing and even promoting antibanderite publications).
I think they are doing something similar in Germany.
Wouldn’t be surprised.
Good explanation