Comment on Indian Symbole of Peace
yesman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why is Hitler popular in India? Is it just an anti-British thing?
I know that some Irish and Indians sought alliance with Hitler to aid in their own liberation. Finland did the same thing, not because Britain was an Allied nation, but because the USSR was.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some Indians vibe with the whole Aryan thing, oh and I think Hitler and Gandhi had correspondence or something?? Hitler, in creating the aryan lore for the nazi ideology, tried to link Europeans with Indians (which TBF, seems to be a thing since Indo-European is a proto-language.)
But when some Indians look at this it’s like “yay! We’re a superior race, cousins of the Germany Aryans! This means we can oppress other races”
Basically it's 1. Being racist and then 2. Linking onto an existing racist framework.
This isn’t actually much different from being an eastern European for instance and aligning with Nazism, not realising that Nazism taught the inferiority of slavs (or so I’m told).
What I think is more common nowadays in India, among Hindus, is actually an admiration and sense of kinship with Israel, which comes from 1. Countries forming at the same time and 2. Shared desire to attack Muslims.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hitler actually sent material support to India during WWII (because keeping England bogged down fighting a revolution is obviously a good thing if you’re trying to stop them from redirecting those efforts to either Japan or yourself). So there’s that too.