Hitler is Growing Popularity in Pakistan and India..., page 1

It would be a good idea to educate people in the Orient with a massive campaign on the evils of Nazism. Otherwise some folks are in danger of falling into similar crimes if they get angry at entire groups they fault with lessening their welfare. Maybe Germany or Israel would do such a campaign. With India and China coming up as new world powers, it would be an important task. Germans are to this day researching the Holocaust and writing no-nonsense articles about it.

In all English-speaking countries, Hitler is perhaps the easiest recognized historical figure. Only a meager percentage of madmen adore him.

It would not be fair to compare life in India to Nazism. India as a whole is a more peaceful country and so is Hindu religion, not to speak of Buddhism. In fact many people around the world learn religious tolerance from Hindu or Buddhist ideas. Of course any callousness and cruelty in human history could be judged, including prejudices and the caste system (of whch the founders of modern India were staunch enemies), but the Holocaust is one of the top evils of all modern human history. You can only cmopare it to Aztec or Assyrian mass murders.
Recent research from the former Soviet Union suggests that Stalin's Bolshevik thugs may have put more people away in Gulags (including for mere racial reasons, e.g. in the case of the small Siberian nations nearly exterminated and Russicized), however, the Nazi holocaust happened in a much shorter time period and with a ferocity and openness unmatched in Soviet life.
Asians have fewer such histories. Mao's crimes can only be guessed as his dictatorship transforms into a peaceful empire slowly. Viet Nam was largely America's fault. The crimes of the cultural revolution have never been fully exposed, but little of it was racially motivated. Pol Pot is perhaps the only similar figure to Hitler and that is a small country compared to the giants.

The Japanese do not cover their historical crimes but as far as I can see from afar, they are not as willing to dwell on them as Germans are. Again, what they committed in China was similar but ... still, no Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.

Nothing comparable ever happened in modern India as far as I know. The status of untouchables had its history of atrocities and inhuman treatment and still there are atrocities, but no mass slaughter involving millions of people by a premeditated plan has ever happened. That would certainly be bad karma by the Vedic standards. However, there is a new nationalism there too, just as in China. So the potential is there. Luckily, such an ideology would never move large masses - Indian culture is just different.

In India, the equivalent of Nazism would be to say that Moslems are not humans but counterfeit people sent by evil powers to subjugate the Aryans (and no one would subscribe to this in the South anyway, being non-Aryan), and therefore they must be exterminated efficiently and quickly. For that was the Nazi view on Jews and Roma.

So much from a person who has never been in India but has been an Indian several times in former lives and practices some Hindu and Buddhist styles of meditation etc. In fact, when Selva Raja Yesudian came to Hungary in the forties, many people looked at this Yoga teacher enjoying his time in Eastern Europe as an inspiration of freedom from political manias. In fact, more people are simply apolitical than in the West.

And the best known historical person of modern India in the world outside of India is Mahatma Gandhi, with his cult of no-violence (satyagraha) still studied by political activists around the world. Imagine the fall of the third reich if Hitler was receiving heroin instead of meth (Pervitin).

The fact that Hitler and Germans are still not separated in the thinking of many Indians can be attributed to many social and world view factors. One is that an Indian, being non-European does not feel the compulsion - judging from conversations with a few friends I had - to share European prejudices. We feel any decent person should point at Nazism but they look at it as outsiders. So they link their ideas relatively freely.

As far as helping the Nazis - I do not know. I know for a fact that many Indians fought with the British and I assume with Australia too. I am sure they far outnumbered the wretched and ideologically motivated attempts by the Nazi regime to erect "International troops."

Moslems and Pakistanis are different - they are antagonized by Israeli modern history and feel a phoney belonging due to religion. However, Pakistan is always feuding with India and India does not persecute Pakistanis.
Indian relligions traditionally did not persecute their own mystics as Moslems and Christians did. They usually respect their mystics and Tantriks even if the latter toss away all conventions.

Modern rootless people will buy weird ideologies easier. India is one country where traditions go way back, perhaps the farthest. However, cars and TV will take ther toll doubtessly on eroding traditions.

Plus, it has been a poor country after British rule. It is rising back with computers, space stuff, industry and all. Hippy tourism. One never knows, but my bet is that India would never start a war ( forgot about the Tamil Tigers - which is clearly oppression). It could be provoked, though.

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