Saddam Hussein, too. All daggers to Walter's heart. He loves murderous fascists.
Gallows humour?
Iraq was a far more stable nation under saddam than it is under the cia, saddam unlike pentagon corroded brass knew how to control terror bent sects. Many iraqis given the opportunity would patch and re-erect his statue imo.
Are Auschwitz and the people who ran it portrayed as heroes?
Of course, the third reich mastered brainwashing and the more 'elitists' and impure the ss exterminated the better. That big business was not good for regular folk resonated with rank and file germans as did the idea of racial harmony being achieved through the elimination of inferior blood lines.
So yes as in all cases they were heroes in the eyes of vested interest and villians in victims view. One of the more revolting aspects of the nazi agenda was western business interests not only supporting them by selling them equipment but also using hapless impures as medical guinea pigs, profit before principle.
Free speech/free expression is a neat sound bite but not easily digested specially now that hate speech designates all non conformist utterances as hateful as evidenced in virginia.
