Many Indians, especially those in the older generation and some even in the younger generation think of Hitler and Stalin as synonymous with a strict, stern and disciplined leader.
Traits that many believe are admirable in a leader especially to rid the Country of many of its evils like corruption, caste, poverty etc, so some of them named their children, businesses, movies, shops etc, after them.
An overwhelming majority of them don’t know the history behind these men and so their admiration extends only to the extent of their perceived positive characteristics.
In fact their name is used in everyday life and in movies to depict a person who is a stickler for rules and authoritarian.
It is sort of like how Churchill is viewed overwhelmingly positively in the west due to them not understanding the impact he had on Indians (Eg – The Bengal Famine).
inwarded_04 on
Patently untrue about Hitler.
While some Indians lile Stalin & WW2 Japan (British, enemy of my enemy), there is no love for Hitler in the slightest. In fact India is tremendously pro-Judaism.
Total BS post
Independent710 on
To be honest, this is true for most of the world. There is a african politician named Hitler. Why was he named that? Did his parents love nazis? No, it was due to the fact that his parents saw how afraid the colonizers were of the name Hitler so they choose a strong name. For most of the world, hitler weakened the western powers so much that they can’t hold on to colonies. Do they love Hitler? No. But are they not as criticial of him? Yes.
JustGulabjamun on
Search ‘Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu’ XD
John_Oakman on
The world isn’t just the Euro-Atlantic democracies, and now that more and more people from developing economies are accessing the internet the consensus (or lack of) will reflect such (assuming that one goes out of one’s internet comfort zone).
(Of course there’s also the part where WWII is starting to fade away from living memory but that’s a different issue)
SeaworthinessSalt524 on
To them (and a lot of Africans too) they were just the guys who kicked their oppressors buts. It’s understandable
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Many Indians, especially those in the older generation and some even in the younger generation think of Hitler and Stalin as synonymous with a strict, stern and disciplined leader.
Traits that many believe are admirable in a leader especially to rid the Country of many of its evils like corruption, caste, poverty etc, so some of them named their children, businesses, movies, shops etc, after them.
An overwhelming majority of them don’t know the history behind these men and so their admiration extends only to the extent of their perceived positive characteristics.
In fact their name is used in everyday life and in movies to depict a person who is a stickler for rules and authoritarian.
It is sort of like how Churchill is viewed overwhelmingly positively in the west due to them not understanding the impact he had on Indians (Eg – The Bengal Famine).
Patently untrue about Hitler.
While some Indians lile Stalin & WW2 Japan (British, enemy of my enemy), there is no love for Hitler in the slightest. In fact India is tremendously pro-Judaism.
Total BS post
To be honest, this is true for most of the world. There is a african politician named Hitler. Why was he named that? Did his parents love nazis? No, it was due to the fact that his parents saw how afraid the colonizers were of the name Hitler so they choose a strong name. For most of the world, hitler weakened the western powers so much that they can’t hold on to colonies. Do they love Hitler? No. But are they not as criticial of him? Yes.
Search ‘Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu’ XD
The world isn’t just the Euro-Atlantic democracies, and now that more and more people from developing economies are accessing the internet the consensus (or lack of) will reflect such (assuming that one goes out of one’s internet comfort zone).
(Of course there’s also the part where WWII is starting to fade away from living memory but that’s a different issue)
To them (and a lot of Africans too) they were just the guys who kicked their oppressors buts. It’s understandable