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Merem commented on Youth Cultures in East Germany 1985 / Stasi (East German Secret Police) twitter.com/psychotronica... · Posted by u/Tomte

miroz · 3 years ago

A lot of nudist camps were active in communist Yugoslavia, called FKK (Freikörperkultur), created and visited mostly by West Germans. So I guess there was not much difference between East and West Germany. For some reason, Germans in general are prone to nudism.

Merem · 3 years ago

Considering it has its roots in the "Lebensreform" in the late 19th century, it's not that surprising that it's part of the culture. Still, American influence hasn't been good to it and it's also the reason why it's more prominent in Eastern Germany.

Merem commented on Accounts to Support Ukrainian Army Directly via Bank of Ukraine bank.gov.ua/ua/news/all/n... · Posted by u/rmind

snovv_crash · 4 years ago

Apologies, I was reading a review of Rigg's work from 1996: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-24-mn-12209-...

Merem · 4 years ago

Ah, that has to have been just part of it then, as the book was released in 2002.

Merem commented on Accounts to Support Ukrainian Army Directly via Bank of Ukraine bank.gov.ua/ua/news/all/n... · Posted by u/rmind

koonsolo · 4 years ago

> has language and racial laws (as written in another comment)

Great reference "another comment". Can you show an actual reference?

Merem · 4 years ago

The comment where I mentioned it is also part of the whole tree, so you just need to look above a bit. If you mean a link to the actual law on the Ukrainian government website, it could take a bit. I don't speak Ukrainian. Then again, it seems kinda lazy on your part to just not look for it yourself. Also, considering you are taking part in the discussion, you should know the necessary background and be informed. I also remember one article in English looking at the racial law, although from a different perspective (it still covered what is written in it though).

Merem commented on Accounts to Support Ukrainian Army Directly via Bank of Ukraine bank.gov.ua/ua/news/all/n... · Posted by u/rmind

snovv_crash · 4 years ago

The whole article is about how conflicted these people were. Also, the details of what was happening to the Jews only surfaced at the end of the war. Before that Hitler was peddling stories of shipping them off to an island on the Bahamas, and broad public antisemitism wasn't limited to Germany in the 1930s, so a lot of people were fine with this.

Merem · 4 years ago

Uhm, did you actually read the whole article or did you have different words than I had? The most relevant part is even pretty early in the article. Also, it's a fact that Hebrew is restriced too, just like Russian, Polish etc etc etc.

Merem commented on Accounts to Support Ukrainian Army Directly via Bank of Ukraine bank.gov.ua/ua/news/all/n... · Posted by u/rmind

koonsolo · 4 years ago

Sure, I can agree it's based on claims.

I just wanted to illustrate that the same can be said on both sides.

Maybe we should do a "special operations" in Russia to clear it from Nazi's, just as Russia is doing to Ukraine right now.

Merem · 4 years ago

The difference is that the Ukraine has language and racial laws (as written in another comment) while Russia supports minority groups by providing TV channels and radio programs in their language.

Merem commented on Accounts to Support Ukrainian Army Directly via Bank of Ukraine bank.gov.ua/ua/news/all/n... · Posted by u/rmind

koonsolo · 4 years ago

Russia also has its fair share of neo nazi's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_National_Unity

Remark the funny part of where these Russian Neo Nazi's were fighting: "In 2014, RNU members joined pro-Russian forces in Ukraine during the War in Donbass[11] under commandment of Pavel Gubarev.[12]

Strange that 1 neo nazi group would fight another neo nazi group... right?

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ukraine-crisis-who-are-russian-neo...

Merem · 4 years ago

It's based on claims though ("Head of Ukraine's Jewish community claims Russian neo-Nazis fight alongside rebels"). However, it's irrelevant because you don't seem to know what a nazi is. So, two neo-nazi groups fighting each other makes perfect sense if they are from different countries. While part of the basis is the same, the other part is opposed to each other. For your information: Nazi = Nationalsozialist = _national_ socialist. While some groups put less emphasis on the extreme nationalism part, others do not.

Merem commented on Accounts to Support Ukrainian Army Directly via Bank of Ukraine bank.gov.ua/ua/news/all/n... · Posted by u/rmind

sofixa · 4 years ago

> Jews also fought for Hitler during WW II, so I don't exactly see your point

I'm going to have to ask for a source here. Jews formed ghetto polices, and Sonderkommando units, that's true. But that was done under duress in terrible circumstances, and certainly isn't "fighting".

Merem · 4 years ago

"Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military" by Bryan Mark Rigg.

Googling, there is also an interesting article here: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/ell...

Merem commented on Accounts to Support Ukrainian Army Directly via Bank of Ukraine bank.gov.ua/ua/news/all/n... · Posted by u/rmind

snovv_crash · 4 years ago

And yet they have a Jewish president and a Jewish prime minister. Perhaps this group is not representative of Ukraine as a whole?

Merem · 4 years ago

Jews also fought for Hitler during WW II, so I don't exactly see your point. Additionally, considering Ukraine enacted a language law in 2019 and a racial law in 2021 and that specific group is part of the National Guard, it should give you something to think about.

Merem commented on Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern Kyiv Saturday morning twitter.com/nytimes/statu... · Posted by u/perihelions

deutschewelle · 4 years ago

it's incredible just from this thread alone the confusion and inability to tell what is going on.

In 2003, we just saw whatever CNN was feeding us but now anybody can become a CNN and you don't even need to be at the place of war.

Can I just point out how freaky this all is? We have never been more connected and have low barriers to access unlimited information, yet despite this, we have no bearing.

Merem · 4 years ago

Information war is a thing. Though, you can find information from people on the ground on Youtube, social media and small websites (mainstream media you can completely forget, there are enough leaks to show that the likes of BBC and Reuters engage in propaganda to turn people against Russia (and I don't even mean local/international outlets but in Eastern European nations specifically and even in Russia itself)). Ah, of course, you should be able to distinguish footage from a video game from real life footage (referring to the large amount of people who apparently can't do that).