There were resistance movements, some of which got quite famous. Most well-known to me would be Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran theologian who was quite vocal about his opposition to the Nazi regime and eventually participated in plans to assassinate Hitler. It failed, as we know, and he was sentenced to death for his role. He very much grappled with the question of whether murdering a tyrant was a sin, but eventually came to the conclusion that it had to be done either way.
He also petitioned the allies to differentiate between Germans and Nazis once the war was over, pertinent to your post.
If the status quo is NAZI and you do not challenge it … then you will be remembered as a NAZI. That is all there is to this. And that is fair.
So, we should treat all russians, israelis and americans as plain assholes?
Yes, unless they are vocally against their regimes.
Survival, discretion and having plans matters. Martyrs can only do so much to rally people to a cause. What’s the point of being yet another body in a Russian gulag if the govt manages to effectively erase you and everything you stood for? Loudly complaining and going to jail, with your family and friends being censored and monitored by the govt, will help how?
As an American I’m using my freedom of speech until they forcibly try to take it away. And then I will die fighting. We are currently witnessing a fascist coup in real time over here and there’s no real opposition to it either, the democrats are completely neutered and self interested in jockeying for the best positions under the fascist regime.
It’s sickening, and I’ve seen this coming for decades, shouting at the top of my lungs about where we were heading, only to be at best ignored or at worst mocked as hysterical. The Cassandra curse is real.
