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      Einstein, Tucholsky, Gandhi and Jesus all seem to be very naive blokes indeed.

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          Technically yes, but he left when Nazi persecution of Jews became official government policy. It was the beginning of the buildup to the Holocaust. He survived the Holocaust in the sense that he was a Jew who lived in the Nazi occupied state and survived.

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      Yeah, everyone knows you can only prevent war by fighting in wars. War is peace.

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          Ah yes, the famous quote from fourth century Rome. How did that work out for them? I seem to remember a continuous series of wars leading to the utter collapse of western Rome before the end of that century. It also inspired the name of the Parabellum pistol (AKA Lugar) manufactured in Germany for both worlds wars. The quote doesn’t have the best track record.

          I prefer si vis pacem para pacem.

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          *oops now there’s a cold war and thousands of nukes*

          Like come on, if there’s one person who didn’t like to make things simple it was Einstein. The guy was a fan of the Soviet Union, which was established through a revolution. This is just a catchy one-liner about pointless wars and militarism, not a deep and detailed political analysis.

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            Soviet Union, which was established on anti-war. WW1, anyone remembers that?

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            You can discredit Einstein as much as you like.

            That doesn’t change a thing about the truth of the quote.