Nationalism, or perhaps loyalty to the tribe, is an exceedingly powerful force.
One has to wonder how history would have been altered if all those masses of Russian soldiers - after destroying the National Socialists, turned their Mosin Nagants and other firearms against the Commissars, NKVD, and other agents of the oppressive Communist state.
Maybe if it they had, we wouldn’t have had to suffer through years of communist butchery in other countries.
marktwain ~ Nationalism, or perhaps loyalty to the tribe, is an exceedingly powerful force.
I'm guessing kearnyirish2 went to publik skool in the past 25 years or so. After 12 years of being taught that America is the only source of world evil, He/she/it would have absolutely no idea why someone would love their country.
If our education system had been openly imposed on us by a foreign power, we would have regarded it as an act of war...
Many supported the Axis until Stalin sent provocateurs behind the lines to kill German troops - and the resulting reprisals drove them back to Stalin. After the wall came down in 1989, Gorbachev admitted this.