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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #180 on: 15:17:13, 28-09-2008 »
Quote from: Milly Jones on 20:56:48, 24-09-2008
Exactly.  Sad Sometimes if they refused to co-operate, they were told that their families would be killed or tortured.  This still goes on today with many other races of people.  Atrocities are committed every day.

Although I don't want to duplicate the Trunk thread here...  as many have pointed-out, a man who joined the Nazi Party in 1931 was hardly strong-armed into doing so by force of circumstances.  We can't keep excusing Nazis on the basis that a few of them were pressured into joining - most of them joined freely and with great enthusiasm. Sad

Similarly, membership of the Communist Party in the USSR never rose higher than 8%, because - quite opposite to the view popularly spread in the media - it was actually considered a restricted privilege, intentionally never offered to more than the chosen few.  Official Party policy on this matter was quite open - the "workers" (as defined by the USSR) were respected and honoured but not expected to bother themselves with being Party Members - and there was no shame (at least, officially) in not being a Member.  
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« Reply #181 on: 15:25:26, 28-09-2008 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 15:17:13, 28-09-2008
Similarly, membership of the Communist Party in the USSR never rose higher than 8%, because - quite opposite to the view popularly spread in the media - it was actually considered a restricted privilege, intentionally never offered to more than the chosen few.

Rather like the Dutch Reformed Church in the seventeenth century. Cheesy

The NSDAP itself was not an important force in Germany after Hitler took absolute power. People would call it the "Sangverein" (singing society).

The idea of a country governed by a singing society is indeed a frightening thought! Wink

Here's a poster by Efimov from last year:
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« Reply #182 on: 08:05:01, 29-09-2008 »
Thank you Reiner and pim_derks,

It was difficult to join the communist party if one wasn't a worker. Workers had no need to join the communist party because what is the point (there was no benefit for them to be a member of the communist party). In fact there were only minuses (attending additional boring meetings).

Mostly white colour workers wanted to join the party for career purposes when I was growing up. This was not easy to do because too many people wanted to do the same.
Most people did not believe in anything when I was growing up, there were a lot of sarcastic remarks. People just want to live well and many are ready to do whatever it takes to achieve the status and material well being. Some people still had their souls and did not do indecent things.
Young people had to join pioneer and komsomol ortanization. I am a former member of both. There was no choice in that.
And every one had to attend boring meeting.
I can see that there a lots of them there still. This is last year picture.
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« Reply #183 on: 19:36:36, 29-09-2008 »
Your early musical career - with the drums, T-P?  Wink
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« Reply #184 on: 21:48:30, 29-09-2008 »
Reiner,
Sh, be quite. They could hear us in here and then they would know my past.
One of them is me (I am not sure if I am a boy or a girl here).

I was combining drum and trumpet duties simultaneously while I was in organization.
Before joining the pioneers we had to be Octobrists (the Revolution was in October).
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