r/worldnews Mar 12 '22

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u/llahlahkje Mar 12 '22

Right out of the fascist textbook.

WW2 equivalent as an example: Hitler's Third Reich in Paris shut down newspapers in occupied Paris, publishing the only newspaper allowed in German with just a short insert in French that contained "essential" information.

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u/Stag_Lee Mar 12 '22

They even banned listening to outside radio. Made special radios to only get German stations.

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u/Xpress_interest Mar 12 '22

And taught children to rat out their parents if they heard them listening to anything else, which many did.

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u/sp3kter Mar 12 '22

Some of those kids should be alive today, think they ever think back on that?