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Some do, they just claim Hamas is equally evil for resisting genocide, the good 'ol "two wrongs don't make a right" adage.
As for East Germany, would you mind stating how your thesis about the government taking an active role in rooting out Nazis somehow made the East more open to fascism isn't a statement on East Germans being incapable of ruling themselved, and just going along with whoever? You linked literature, sure, but avoided addressing that the West never de-Nazified yet East Germany was thoroughly purged of Communists? Rather than blaming the rise of fascism in modern eastern Germany on the previous antifascist government and the dull acceptance of the eastern Germans due to alienation from politics, why not take an active look at the dynamics at play as the West took over the East?
As for Psychology, no, it isn't idealism, but your analysis was. In the absence of materialist analysis, you shifted to an assertion that existing in different modes of production shuts off the higher instincts of man. It is true that material conditions shape the ideas of man, but you pivoted that to the idea that existing in a Socialist state dulls the mind, which doesn't have materialist backing.
Socialism is not "the same fucking river" as Nazism, not to any capacity. I recommend reading Blackshirts and Reds, it's a good introductory book and a quick read.
As for Nazi Germany's approval ratings, that's not really true, as clearly Holocaust victims weren't polled. Support for Socialism both within post-Socialist states and currently Socialist states is best explained by the real material achievements they made for the Working Class, as one western study said of China:
"Although state censorship and propaganda are widespread in China, these findings highlight that citizen perceptions of governmental performance respond most to real, measurable changes in individuals’ material well-being. Satisfaction and support must be consistently reinforced. As a result, the data point to specific areas in which citizen satisfaction could decline in today’s era of slowing economic growth and continued environmental degradation."
This is backed by trends:
I'll leave you with a Parenti quote I think is fitting, from the same book I recommended:
If you read what I wrote, then you would know that I actually stated: a) the government didn't do that and b) it prevented civil society from doing so.
(titles of your links)
So in the east.
...lawyers. Gregor Gysi is a lawyer, btw.
All in all you really don't seem to be particularly knowledgeable about German history. You also don't seem to be willing to investigate what I gave you, instead falling into a partisan "But SED good therefore they are right" (unironically) and "everything is the fault of the west". Very predictable, very sad.
The quantity and quality with respect to how de-Nazification was handled in the West vs the East was entirely different, and you are erasing that because the East still had some Nazis, while the West was infested with them. This is affirmed by the links I sent, to which you merely read the titles. The lawyer piece, for example, talks about the entire process of de-Nazification with an emphasis on how the Nazi lawyers were treated.
I could do the same low-effort character assassination you levied against me, but if you're not even going to read the abstracts or intros of the articles I link, this conversation was never going to go anywhere in the first place.