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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Idk if that's really why WWII started...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

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