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Date: April 17, 2025 10:31AM

Welcome to cynicism. I learned that here in the mid to late 1990's when John Howard became Australia's Prime Minister. It wasn't anything on the news but things said in person.

A more accessible guide, if you can stomach it, is The Triumph of the Will, the ultimate Nazi propaganda film. It's available in all good academic shops and clearly shows Hitler and the key Nazis, not in uniform, calmly delivering clear, neatly encapsulated statements. No dramatic acting. Everything they said to those young men who trusted them, they then did something else, sometimes the exact opposite. Those young men were told their country was being attacked (a staged attack on the Polish border, with prisoners dressed in German Army uniform shot dead to look like an attack by Poland), and sent to die. A year before the U Boat fleet was ready. One or two years before the army was ready to invade Russia. But so what? The Nazis didn't care.

I recommend a Russian film, White Tiger, all the way to the end scene.