Aidonian's blog

Well, we celebrate that fascists of nazisme and their allies were defeated by Allied forces and thé Soviet union.Hitler and Mussolini were defeated. Hitler had killed himself in his bunker. Mussolini tried to escape but was discovered and subsequently executed. 

Fascism had cost a lot of lives, civilian, soldiers and POW’s. It was during WO2 that Nazi’s came up with death camps where people worked literally to death. The siege of Leningrad(now Saint-Petersburg) cost around 1 million lives of civilians and soldiers their lives. Most of them were civilian casualties. From the start Hitler had it out of the Slavic people. Before Jews were thrown into camps. The first to go to these labour death camps were union workers, Slavs, gypsies, gays and political opponents. Jewish lives in Germany were at first made difficult. First robbed of their possessions, than thrown into ghettos before being sent to death camps. The idea of sending Jews to death camps came after 1941, after the events in eastern Ukraine and Poland were it became clear that having ordinary soldiers kill unarmed men, women and children was hard on their psyche. So this solution was devised to kill Jews, gypsies, gays, Slavs, political opponents on a larger, industrial scale unseen before then. 

Several companies who worked with the Nazi’s for their camps were still allowed to operate after the war. For them it was ideal. Free labour and no hassle with social rights or anything like that. A dream scenario for big companies. They can keep their profits and they don’t have to share it with their workers. Because that is what fascism is also about. Undermine workers social rights, give free reigns to companies and when workers complain, they were arrested. 

I know Hollywood has make it seem like it was because of American involvement that Allied forces won the war. The truth couldn’t be any more further away from it. While US joined the war effort in 1941 after Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese army, even they could not turn the tide of the war. That came after the Sovjet Union drove the Nazi’s out of Russia where great sacrifices were made to drive them out of the country. After that Stalin ordered his troops to move against the Nazi’s and follow them back to Germany. It wasnt the first time Russian forces entered Europe to strike at Berlin. I think the first time was with Empress Elizabeth Petrovna who ordered her troops to attack Prussia. Than during the Napoleons war they followed Napoleon back to France. Now again with Germany. 

The truth is, that without Soviet forces, without the aid of the communists, The war could have lasted longer, perhaps lost even. We will never know. But it was because of the communists that the war was won. Germany was now being attacked by two sides by powerful and strong armies and that combined force, was to powerful for the Nazi’s to even overcome, which ended with the surrender of Germany after the suicide of Hitler. The Soviet Union had lost most during this war. They had suffered the most civilian casualties. But the worst were the death camps like Auschwitz. While war is horror and hell, these camps were even worse than that.  

It’s extremely important to never forget what happened during this war. 

After the war the remaining Nazi’s were hunted down and put on trial. Even those who collaborated with the Nazi’s were hunted down. 

In the decades after the war, especially in Belgium, the emphasis lied on that the treatment those collaborators got after the war was equal to those who suffered during the war. Especially in Flanders this was the case. With parties like N-VA and Vlaams Belang who promote that view that collaborators were victims, not perpetrators. While it might be the case for some, who did it to survive, to put bread on the table, most of them did it willingly. They weren’t forced. They joined willingly. It took almost three decades or so before the camp of Breendonk was turned into a museum to remember what happened. All because the view that the collaborators were victims who were treated worse or equal than those who suffered in the camps. 

Even today some right wing extremists bring a hitler greet in Breendonk. For the far right, a visit to Breendonk is brainwashing into victim hood for something that has nothing to do with them. This is because they want people forget what fascism can lead to and that such horrors can happen again if we aren’t careful. 

i touched upon the subject, there is a myth that permeates in the west through Hollywood propaganda that the war was won through the intervention of the US. Hollywood makes it seems that the US was fighting this war alone. The reality is that Allied forces without US were already neck deep in this war. In German occupied countries, resistance fighters were conducting guerrilla attacks on German forces. If Germany never attacked Sovjet-Union and maintained their treaty, the war could have lasted longer or perhaps even won by Germany. We will never know. Even though Sovjets were caught off guard by Hitlers attack. When the war was turned in their favour, the Communists drove them out of their lands and than went after them. The war was won mostly due to the efforts of the communists. Without them and the sacrifices their soldiers made, the war could most likely never be won. This is speculation of course, since the Germans did lose the war. But it does give a sense that without the efforts of the communists and the resistance combined with Allied forces that made sure the war was won. 

There is also another reason. With no direct acces to oil fields to provide fuel for their planes, etc…Hitler was looking towards the oil fields in Russia to gain access to fuel he needed. Instead of negotiating with Stalin, he decided to attack Russia to take the oil fields for himself. Stalin was caught off guard. He had signed a non-aggression treaty and hoped that would be enough to ward of a attack. While ideological different, Stalin was forced into o sign that treaty because western countries wanted Hitler to attack him. They had hoped that they would destroy each other in the process. The events didn’t unfold as they had wished and hoped. Hitler did attack Stalin but only after he had conquered most of Europe along with Italy. The attack on Stalin was inevitable. Hitler and the Nazi’s had a deep hatred towards Slavic people and communists.