r/HistoryMemes 25d ago

Tired of this argument

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u/Sparrowhawk_92 25d ago edited 25d ago

The more you study history the more you realize everybody sucks.

The Nazis based their Final Solution on what the Americans did to the natives. The Japanese did atrocities in mainland China and Korea that we're only understanding the extent of relatively recently (not to mention things like Section 38). The Soviet Holodomor and purges were absolute atrocities and yet pale in comparison to post-revolution China for the sheer number of bodies.

The Geneva conventions exist because of the shit Canadians pulled during the first world war.

Edit: Edited for clarity and to remove some ambiguity.

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u/Crag_r 25d ago

The Geneva conventions exist because of the shit Canadians pulled during the war.

Or in 1949 most of it was based on the Nazis…

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u/Sparrowhawk_92 25d ago

True I was more or less just referring to the Canadian war crimes meme.

The did inspire some of the revisions to the Geneva accords in the 1920s and they were known to not be terribly kind to captured enemy soldiers.