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Uncle Obsessed with World War II Somehow Blind to Encroaching International Fascism(thehardtimes.net)

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valkyre09@lemmy.world
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WW1 - they hit some dude in a car and everybody was pissed.

WW2 - everybody was sick of paying for WW1

Easy!

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TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world
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Idk if that’s really why WWII started…

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grte@lemmy.ca
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There was more to WW1 starting than Franz Ferdinand getting shot, too. They are sarcastically skewering people’s simplistic understanding of the causes of those two conflicts.

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TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world
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I guess so. I think it was mostly Germany tired of paying for WWI tho lol

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