In it, violence is celebrated with images adapted directly from Nazi propaganda films, especially one scene in particular that showcases a rally eerily similar to those that were conducted for the Reich Labor Service in Nazi Germany. It is an advertisement encouraging young people to sign up for the mobile infantry, to sacrifice their lives for the greater good of violence. The propaganda film that opens the movie sets the pace and mood for what's to come.
If they had been, it's possible Starship Troopers would have been taken more seriously. It's unfortunate that statements such as this were not more widely circulated in the 1990s.
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