Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "WHAT TIMOTHY SNYDER KNOWS (and Everyone Else Needs to Learn)" video.

  1. State is correct. Region would equate to the south west, the south, the east coast, the midwest etc.  @dkudlay 
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  2. Churchill would have been the right guy a decade earlier. Appeasement started before Munich. The Spanish and Austrian Republics fell because of it.
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  3. It's not nerdy to educate yourself. It's admirable.
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  4. East Germany was Hitler's power base, not Bavaria. I checked the voting records.
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  5. Snyder's direct comparison of Hitlerian and Putinist colonialism goes a long way to explaining German ambivalence towards the plight of Ukranians.
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  6. I remember talking to a young east German in Brandenburg. They said, they wanted to leave it all to a leader. I never heard that in the many years I spent in the north west of the country.
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  7. Yeah, they're saying in a roundabout way that they think it's okay to murder if it advances the interest of the state. That's fascism.
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  8. What is more scary is that the war generation is dead, so there is nobody left to whisper in our ears that however alluring fascism may seem, it ends in disaster.
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