@philokalia said
My cousin was there in downtown Minneapolis, 8 blocks away from the BLM riots that were destroying the city. My parents are also about a 10 minute drive from where it all happened.
Several blocks were entirely taken over by Antifa in Seattle.
In Portland, they burned the Police union building.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/police-union-building-broken-in ...[text shortened]... d
Antifa is also toppling monuments across America -- something that Nazi Germany also never did.
Well, neither Antifa nor Nazi Germany toppled statutes in the US but the latter:
"Among naval records on the leisure-time activities of German troops stationed in occupied France was a misplaced copy of a directive from Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel. Dated Aug. 12, 1940, the document conveyed Hitler’s order to Germany's Army High Command to destroy World War I memorials in occupied Belgium and France [1]. The monuments, in Hitler’s eyes, served to defame the army and perpetuate hatred against the nation. Their eradication was thus necessary to restore Germany’s reputation and protect it for posterity."
"In the 1920s and 1930s, tens of thousands of monuments were erected in Belgium and France to remember the war dead."
"In May 1940, when German forces invaded Belgium and France, they took their revenge, razing Furore Teutonico and other troublesome war monuments. "
https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/culture/the-invasion-of-memory-hitlers-attempt-to-rewrite-the-history-of-world-war-i_o