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The USSR gained so much needed strategic depth, the Germany gained Lebensraum. Which country wasn't trading with Nazi Germany?
by gdy 6y ago
The USSR gained so much needed strategic depth, the Germany gained Lebensraum.
Which country wasn't trading with Nazi Germany?
- sergeykish 6y ago"Germany gained so much needed strategic depth" - somehow Germany evil, USSR not - flawed logic
- gdy 6y agoYou are welcome to present a Soviet equivalent of the Lebensraum concept.
- sergeykish 6y agoGulag [1], Purges [2], man made famine [3], restriction of movement [4], population as means for World Revolution [5], imperialism [6]. Bolsheviks were terrorists [7], the state evolved from terrorists organisation. It should be shamed just as we shame Fascists. Meanwhile in Russia Stalin popularity is record high [8]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%9333 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%93... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_revolution [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Empire [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror [8] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47975704 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47975704
- gdy 6y agoIt has nothing to do with Lebensraum.
- celticninja 6y agoIt walks like a duck and sounds like a duck. You can call it whatever you want, the ethos is the same.
- gdy 6y agoWe are talking about motivation for getting territories. All that the parent comment listed doesn't have anything to do with that.