The Onion

Learning about WWII doesn't teach you how the most progressive, industrialized society in the world at the time, and possibly ever, became fascist. For that you need to learn about WWI, the failed Spartacist uprising from 1917-1923, and the following period where the Nazis rose to power and the last remnants of the USPD and KPD were destroyed.

So unless your uncle is a fan of Rosa Luxemburg, he's probably clueless

As an uncle who knows something about WWII and also notices the current rise in fascism, I must point out there is an error in the article:

At press time, Poppavich signed up for a local history group’s WWII reenactment, requesting a position within the Axis powers, specifically the USSR since he “likes Putin’s style.”

Actually, the USSR was not an axis power during the war. They were one of the Allies on the side of Great Britain and the US. The Axis was Germany, Italy, and Japan

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alwaysthesamemap

Encyclopedic knowledge of history doesn't mean historians know how to use logic and crytical thinking.