Catherine Schmidt
Becca@lillyfinch Who would be America in the hypothetical scenario where we're Germany?
China? France?
The French melted down their government to help us previously. 😅
Szewek@bweller @lillyfinch I'm surprised to not see this thread flooded with tankies stressing one of the few historical facts they kinda actually get right:
It was, primarily, the Soviet Union that defeated Germany. The resistance, the UK, and the US helped, might have even shifted the scale; we will never know. But the main clash was by far Nazis vs Soviets.
FediThing 🏳️🌈The Soviets were on the Nazis' side, they signed an agreement to carve up Europe between them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact
The Soviets were invading innocent neighbours at the same time the Nazis were (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_the_Baltic_states_(1940)).
The only reason the Soviets ended up joining the Allies mid-way through the war was because Hitler turned on them unexpectedly.
This is the part that Stalinist apologists leave out, their man was invading neighbours and doing imperialist deals with Hitler, and only pulled out when Hitler double-crossed them. And then after the war the Soviets kept their stolen territories.
@FediThing @szewek @bweller all true and I don’t deny the visiousness and ruthlessness or Stalin, the enemy of my enemy is my friend sistuation. I just was primarily referring to the millions of Russians who lost their lives, what ever the rhetoric, that resulted in defeating the Nazis