Jack Albrecht
2 min readApr 25, 2022

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Your arrogance is possibly only matched by your ignorance. I find the ironic that the only actual Nazis in this war are in the Ukraine gov't, army and militias, but you call the Russians "Nazis." The projection is so epic it is Shakespearean.

My family is half-German from outside Berlin. I live in Austria about 2 hours from Hitler's birthplace. I've been to concentration camps. I've studied Nazi history and Hitler specifically. My wife's family was oppressed by the first Nazis in WWII. My wife's grandfather was sent to Buchenwald by the Nazis.

The Russians aren't Nazis. The swastika-tattooed, Wolfsangel-toting, Stepan Bandera-loving Azov battalian, Right Sector, and C14 - those are the real fucking Nazis. White supremicist fanatic Nazis consistently since WWII.

You have no idea what I know or don't know about Russians. I've been living and working in central and eastern Europe for decades. My wife and her whole family come from the former Warsaw pact. I have and have had Russian friends and business partners.

Your caricature of "how Russians are" is just that, a caricature. Similar to caricatures people have made of their enemies for millinea. It is easier to justify killing someone if first they can be made into something "less than" or "other" than our society.

Those are the attitudes to make war. The attitude to make peace is to understand that we are all humans and our societieis have far more in common than we have differences.

Good luck with your hate. I have enough anger issues of my own. I don't need yours.

I'm done. Bye now.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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