Randahl FinkJul 4, 2023

I have often wondered why Putin's attack on #Ukraine angers me so deeply.

Walking on the beaches of Lillebælt, I realized it is because of this:

To this day, we Danes still see the concrete fortifications left by the Nazis on our shores, because 1 fascist leader got the insane idea, he had the right to topple our democracy.

He had no right. All he had was the delusion he was somehow supreme to everyone else.

We stopped the fascist in 1945.

We will stop the fascist now.

Show threadjohnnyunger
@randahl while I don’t disagree with the overall premise, it is worth examining who “we” is in the case of Denmark… despite some resistance, on the whole I don’t think it’s accurate to say that Denmark “stopped” Fascism in WW2, or even resisted it that much…
Jul 5, 2023 at 8:14amWeb
Show threadRandahl FinkJul 5, 2023
@johnnyunger In 1940, the tiny Danish army was run over in 6 hours by the overwhelming military force of the Nazis.
10,000 Danes became part of the secret resistance army and that grew to 85,000 throughout the war, in a population of only 3.8 million.
After participating in resistance operations, 14.000 were captured by the Nazis. 102 were executed by Nazi firing squad.
The Holger Danske Resistance Group alone carried out 200 assassinations and 100 sabotage bombings of railroads, shipyards, etc.