• SCB@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    their enthusiasm for war in the 40s

    I mean… nazis.

    Perhaps you have a typo in your years there?

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      10 months ago

      The Dulles brothers did legitimately help the Allied effort during the Second World War … but leading up to and during the actual war years, they were also known to play favourites, court unscrupulous characters, take part in shady deals and help one side or the other depending on what business was involved. Then when the war was over, it was far easier and more acceptable to be a fascist or even a Nazi than a communist. Look at the history and background to a lot of German and Nazi professionals, academics, scientists and military leaders after the war … many of them were courted by US intelligence to work for the US while disregarding their past offences.

      Allen Dulles probably single handedly sabotaged any kind of neutral or positive relationship with the Communists … this isn’t meant to say that the Communists were a positive political movement … Allen Dulles was instrumental in making a bad situation worse for probably 20 years. Even JFK wanted to build a relationship with the Soviets but people like Dulles just wanted fear, anger and war without negotiation or compromise.

      When you start reading the history of the Dulles brothers … it gets hard to differentiate them from the fascists they supposedly fought in the Second World War … they were more like the Nazis without the overt Aryanism

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      10 months ago

      No I think OP refers to the Early Career section of the wiki. There was legitimate debate around whether the U.S. should join WWII.

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      10 months ago

      Besides, didn’t the US stay out of the war until basically the last minute? I feel like I’m missing something.