I think as a 3rd grader I hated Communism, because it was 1958, and I was getting a lot of information in school, including a video of Nikita Krushiev banging his shoe on a podium and screaming, "We will bury you!" And of course we had safety drills that went along with the videos where every few days we would have to huddled under our desks, in preparation for a nuclear bomb attack. This wasn't just occurring in our school, the Emerson Elementary School in Butte, Montana. It was happening everywhere in America. The land of the free and the home of the brave, whose "good" God crowns with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.
But hate is truly dangerous. It breeds hate. Which breeds hate crimes. Which breeds hate crimes.
It's one thing to hate Nazis, who are despicable. But it's another thing to hate them so much that you feel justified in raping a 10-year old girl simply because she was born in the 3rd Reich. The documentary HellStorm tells the story of how the hatred for the Nazis created such horribly evil reprisals against innocent Germans, mostly after the war, that the horrors have been expunged from "our" history books.
Watch and weep here:
And here:
