Comments by "Jussi M. Konttinen" (@jussim.konttinen4981) on "Desperate historians try to defend the Nazi "privatization" myth" video.

  1. To sum up, Tik: every murder is socialist My counter argument: every murder is capitalist
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  2. I think you could see the difference between non-commissioned officers and officers, as in any society. Some generals were opportunists. If you take a random SS captain, he had more or less right-wing ideas.
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  3.  @johnwolf2829  For example, SS-captain Yrjö Paavo Ilmari (Y. P. I.) Kaila served under Franco. He was wounded in Spain. Too bad the Nazis weren't allowed to vote in 1945. We would have gotten an accurate picture of their political orientation. However, the Wehrmacht was pretty much divided fifty-fifty between christian conservatives and social democrats in Austria. The Communists won only four seats, which some blamed on the conduct of the Red Army in the Soviet occupied zone of Austria.
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  4. SS-captain Jouko Kauko Itälä was a member of the board of Cederroth, which was acquired by Orkla care. Jouko did not switch sides during WW2 (un)like the vast majority of Finns, therefore he served a short prison sentence in both Norway and Finland. Presumably, Jouko spoke Swedish despite his Finnish name. Cederroth was a Swedish company. Now that I've become aware of it, I've noticed the Orkla brand in, among other things, multivitamins and shampoos. Not to be confused with his brother Jaakko Itälä, who was a liberal MP in Finland.
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  5. Apparently, this isn't a Winston Churchill quote, so I'm happy to claim it for myself. "The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists.” -Jussi Konttinen, July 14, 2022
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  6. How about "The Nazis of the future, will call themselves fascists"
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  7. Germany was corrupt. Communist countries were much more united in their madness from Leningrad to Mongolia. Spain, Switzerland and Ireland were not socialist at all. Sweden was only nominally socialist during WW2. Even today, Sweden has no inheritance tax.
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  8. Easy answer. Nothing. Their goal was to destroy Poland and Belarus, in which they succeeded. If it wasn't, we would speculate about the Operation Unthinkable happening in 1939.
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  9. I don't mind calling everything right from ancap as socialism. After all, 1776 inspired the 1789 revolution. That being said, Christian conservatism is realism in Central Europe, in a good year.
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  10.  @petervote7914  Interestingly, SS-Hauptscharführer  Erich von der Heyde was acquitted at the IG Farben Trial. In those days, bookkeepers were not considered criminals.
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  11.  @thurin84  Right-wing and socialism are not mutually exclusive
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  12.  @thurin84  I am a supporter of Sakari Puisto. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. National conservatives lean towards nationalism and cultural conservatism, while opposing  multiculturalism. They are closer to the centre than other right wingers, specifically in economic matters.
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  13. The Nazis were capitalists at first, but ended up imprisoning some industrial leaders. Fritz Thyssen and his wife Amelie spent the whole war in a concentration camp. They remind me of how the USA drifted into statism. After the September 11 attacks, George Bush enacted the Patriot Act. Not to mention nationalization in Russia. That being said. The Iraq war 2003-2011 was NOT a NATO operation. US airspace control after the terrorist attack in New York in 2001-2002 WAS a NATO operation, as the defense alliance is supposed to do. NATO Press Releases: "This marked the first invocation of Article 5, which had been written during the Cold War with an attack by the Soviet Union in mind."
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  14. The US Army executed 98 servicemen following General Courts Martial (GCM) for murder and/or rape in the European Theatre of Operations during the Second World War. The only person interred who was not convicted of rape and/or murder was Eddie Slovik, who was executed for desertion. Bearing in mind, the US army was about four times larger than the Finnish army. Those must be the most egregious cases. Finland had similar statistics, but for desertion. Murder/rape was not punishable by death.
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  15. What was the end result in 1945? Adolf "The Socialist" Hitler was gone. Did Europe become more right-wing for a while?
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