I forgive your lack of logic, but if you think that government supported ideology just magically stops spreading and carrying on to the next generation and is biologically confined to the original group, there’s no point of explaining anything because you would not follow it too.

It’s because it’s impossible. The classes will always be in conflict until the communism is reached, so it depends which class is in power.

It must’ve been that they were so active I got the impression there were more back then.

Well, they have access to the biggest and most pervasive propaganda machine in the history of mankind so their narration is the one that prevail in large part of the world.

Like the mere fact that a literal Waffen SS soldier participating in many atrocities was given applause in western parliament and that wasn’t met with unanimous condemnation and collapse of said parliament.

And the one before that they liberated Europe from Napoleon.

Ukraine actually had tiny % of nazis in WW2. It was like 250000 or so nazis compared to at least 7 million Ukrainian partisans and Red Army soldiers. It’s just that west after war absorbed, coddled and promoted the nazi survivors and after 1991 send them back with a huge propaganda bucks, and in 2014 helped them organize the coup.

Percentage-wise Latvia had more % of population in SS than any other country including Germany so i think the “Latvian” part did played at least some role.

It’s been pretty fun actually to watch Muricans declare Trump to be The Ultimate Devil but still spin like crazy when the Officially Demonised Countries decide to oppose what really is just usual US foreign politics but more ineptly and openly presented. Fortunately for them, russiagate comes to the rescue to fix their developing cognitive dissonance and they can still get back to their brunch, albeit with much complaining (i’m also waiting for the hilarious moment when they announce USA is apparently controlled by Iranian agents).

There is a poem in Polish, it goes in fast and dirty translation: “Today you scare us with communists, just as years ago, you scared our fathers with the democrat name”.

Start from yourself

So they inherited democrat policy on the issue.

Everyone who is not with us, is against us. Traditional (lack of) logic of fanatics.