The ramparts are gone, which is what the alt-left is so pissed off about. Friedrich Fucking Merz is better than them. And Merz is awful. https://twitter.com/nilocobau/status/1312952075433594881

So, so much of what people think about communism is infected by Stalinist propaganda, similar to the Dunning School in the US.

Reinhard Gehlen, who formed West Germany's intelligence ops, had been among the July 20 plotters; the alt-left still calls him a Nazi.

Armia Krajowa sheltered Polish Jews and tried to help the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; Stalin had the survivors executed at show trials.

Witold Pilecki, who infiltrated Auschwitz and then escaped to tell the world about it, was executed in 1948 at such a show trial.

The July 20 plotters themselves, as @Mujakura demonstrates, opposed Hitler out of moral opposition to Nazism and the Holocaust.

But far too much traditional historiography dismissed them as opportunists because they were mostly monarchists and not socialists.

The postwar Czechoslovak communist party was full of former Nazi collaborators, but this is far worse known than Nazi presence in the West.

The USSR was hideously racist (ask any Jew) and so were its satellite states; East Germany forbade Vietnamese immigrants to have children.

The third-world communist regimes were the same - Pol Pot's genocide is well known, but there's also the Derg.

Socialists in the West like talking up anti-racism but contributed nothing material to it and defend communist racism.

Most Ostalgie is by people who complain that Westerners listen to the prisoners of communism more than to the gulag guards.

Nothing good came out of communist revolutions. Nothing good came out of Stalinism. Throw it into the same bin as Nazism and move on. /end