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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 19 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Sorry I forget, how were the Nazis stopped again?

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

By Soviet sweat, blood and tears. The Soviet Union lost an unimaginable 25 million lives (with some regions like Belarus losing ONE IN THREE PEOPLE) in the struggle against Nazism. Say what you will about the Soviet Union but they are the liberators of Europe and they will have my eternal gratitude for it, especially as a Spaniard, since they were the only country in the Spanish Civil War to send weapons, tanks and planes to the antifascists. Forever will love the Soviet BT-5 tanks and the I-16 "moscas" in their labor of killing fascists in Spain!

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And obviously you respect especially Belarus and Ukraine, because it was them that did the heavy lifting in that, as you already somewhat mentioned, right?

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

Obviously, my utmost respect to the brave workers and soldiers of all the ethnicities in the USSR that contributed to the slaughter of the Nazi monster, including not just Russians but Belarusians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Maris... Belarus and Ukraine took the worst part because they were occupied by the Nazis who had a policy of extermination of the Slavic peoples, it's truly horrifying what the people of said republics had to endure.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Because they didn't just stick to oppressing the citizens of their country, they invaded a country that had allies and they caused a war which they lost.

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

So Greenland is Poland and Canada is France in this scenario, got it.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

“after a few years, we won’t stand for that, will we?”

[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

I think it was some struggling artist that got fed up and shot their leader, wasn't it?

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

They were opposed by a coalition of other countries led by an emerging super power who cooked their asses in a world war ending in nukes.

Oh. Oh no.