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> soviets don’t get adequate credit for the privation they suffered. this old trope? the soviets were horrible monsters. they killed jews (many pogroms). durin
by kmlx 7y ago
> soviets don’t get adequate credit for the privation they suffered.
this old trope? the soviets were horrible monsters.
they killed jews (many pogroms). during peacetime they killed at least as many people as the nazis did.
the great trick that the soviets managed is to make us belief they were on the right side of history, when in reality they were on the worst side, every single time.
one of the greatest mistakes of WW2 was the US support of the USSR. they should have left the two madmen to kill eachother. the world would have been a much better place. what did we get in return? USSR dominating half of Europe, murdering, scheming, destroying the social fabric of the continent for half a century.
- aidenn0 7y agoTowards the end of the war there clearly wasn't US support for the USSR; we were racing them towards Berlin (and lost) and raced them to get Japan to surrender (won that one). The optics of completely abandoning someone you are ostensible allied with are poor. All of that is orthogonal to the fact that over a third of the people who died in WW2 were Soviets, and many people do not realize it, which is the point the grandparent comment was making.