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Uncle Obsessed with World War II Somehow Blind to Encroaching International Fascism (thehardtimes.net)

submitted 3 months ago by ZeroCool to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There was more to WW1 starting than Franz Ferdinand getting shot, too. They are sarcastically skewering people's simplistic understanding of the causes of those two conflicts.

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[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I guess so. I think it was mostly Germany tired of paying for WWI tho lol

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