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-1 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 23 November 2015 01:47AM

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 07 December 2015 05:15:38AM -1 points [-]

Most instances of fascism were somewhat closer to being "a particular ethnic group" than ISIS is, and anyway he said "notoriously hard", not "impossible", and the defeat of fascism was not exactly painless and effortless.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 07 December 2015 07:03:10PM 0 points [-]

and the defeat of fascism was not exactly painless and effortless.

And attempting to avoid offending them, as Gleb is arguing for, was obviously counterproductive in retrospect.