minus-squarequediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•snowden on "nothing to hide, nothing to fear"linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down2·3 days agoWho you say you are fighting is irrelevant. It is how you do it. The first comparison wasn’t about ideologies, it was about spying the population and the stasi took it to a whole new level. Those governments weren’t trying to destroy nazi organizations, they were trying to destroy anything that it wasn’t them and people suffered for that. linkfedilink
minus-squarequediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•snowden on "nothing to hide, nothing to fear"linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoYeah, it would be more correct to compare the to the gestapo and the SD instead of the whole party. linkfedilink
Who you say you are fighting is irrelevant. It is how you do it.
The first comparison wasn’t about ideologies, it was about spying the population and the stasi took it to a whole new level.
Those governments weren’t trying to destroy nazi organizations, they were trying to destroy anything that it wasn’t them and people suffered for that.