Didn’t Stalin say that quantity has a quality of its own?
Oh yeah, Stalin got backstabbed by Hitler—who would have thunk it? (save maybe some advisors who were sent to the gulag)—with terrible consequences for the USSR. Militarily-speaking, Germany has been a challenge for Russia. Russia should have prepared for it, but Stalin fucked around being a dictator, letting ideology and his personality cult get in the way to rising to the challenge, and the consequences were probably millions of more dead Soviets than otherwise.
After a hard fight in this war of annihilation, with possibly indispensable help from the evil (relatively) liberal West, the big 4 defeated Hitler and carved up Germany, resulting in unprecedented freedom and prosperity for West Germany, and the USSR didn’t do too bad either, but the US did even better.
What I find annoying is that Soviet and/or tankie apologists act like 1939 and 1940 didn’t happen. It’s carved into their memorials—1941 - 1945 instead of 1939 - 1945. It’s as if they are trying to deny historical facts.
FWIW, it was far less territory, but yes, a Slavic nation (or any nation) was stupid to deal with Hitler.
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Lol. Desperately clutching at anything to justify the double standard.
But even if what you said was true, the USSR invaded a Nazi ally, so what’s the problem?
Didn’t Stalin say that quantity has a quality of its own?
Oh yeah, Stalin got backstabbed by Hitler—who would have thunk it? (save maybe some advisors who were sent to the gulag)—with terrible consequences for the USSR. Militarily-speaking, Germany has been a challenge for Russia. Russia should have prepared for it, but Stalin fucked around being a dictator, letting ideology and his personality cult get in the way to rising to the challenge, and the consequences were probably millions of more dead Soviets than otherwise.
After a hard fight in this war of annihilation, with possibly indispensable help from the evil (relatively) liberal West, the big 4 defeated Hitler and carved up Germany, resulting in unprecedented freedom and prosperity for West Germany, and the USSR didn’t do too bad either, but the US did even better.
What I find annoying is that Soviet and/or tankie apologists act like 1939 and 1940 didn’t happen. It’s carved into their memorials—1941 - 1945 instead of 1939 - 1945. It’s as if they are trying to deny historical facts.