The irony being that apparently a large chunk of the actual resistance in WWII were outright criminals.
I am from north italy and yesterday I talked about this with my parents.
People loves to remember when the nazi officers ordered the burning of whole villages, not that they did so near the end of a war they knew they had already lost war because partizans shoot at their soldiers' back.
People want to remember Bella ciao being sung while Mussolini was hanged, not the dehumanizing treatment done to him and his lover before and after their deaths.
People want to put a "US vs FASCISM" rethoric, not discuss the rapes, theft, executions and other pointless crimes the
resistance marked itself with.
At that time, allegedly, when a new major was elected in the town my father was born into, partizans immediately came to seize control, and the newly elected guy had to face them head on with guns pointed at, proclaiming that if they really wanted to be in command, they had to walk over his very own corpse, the corpse of the man the people actually voted for.
History is full of Anti-thing movements that used said anti-thing rethoric to justify the atrocities they committed, as well as pieces of scum that won't hesitate to ignore or justify said horrors, as long as it doesn't befit their narrative.
Try to explain to billy what the foibe massacre was and he will turn a blind eye, just like any modern antifa, but do the same with the white terror in taiwan, an horrible act caused by an anti-communist movement, and they will immediately jump and denounce what an horrible thing it really was.
