• diprount_tomato
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        131 year ago

        After Germany declared war on them? They didn’t defeat them out of good will, in fact, I’d say America and South Africa were the closest things to Nazi Germany outside of the Reich

        • Flying Squid
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          -31 year ago

          Is it good to beat the shit out of the school bully after he picks a fight with you so he learns to stop picking fights with people? I would say so.

            • Flying Squid
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              -81 year ago

              There’s a difference between being a good country and being a global force for good. In helping to defeat the Nazis, the U.S. was a global force for good regardless of what else they did, had done or will do. The same with Stalinist Russia.

              • @Nudding
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                81 year ago

                And then they took all the top scientists from Germany and Japan, who were guilty of crimes against humanity, and made them high ups in the American government

                • Flying Squid
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                  11 year ago

                  Bad countries can’t do good things?

          • diprount_tomato
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            91 year ago

            Should I remind you of the land the USA originally had and what they did to the people who lived in the lands they conquered?

            • @[email protected]
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              -51 year ago

              You can if you want to pretend that Russia didn’t do the same thing and that it somehow makes the comparison better for you!

              • diprount_tomato
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                It did, but the natives are more than 1% of the Russian population

      • originalucifer
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        61 year ago

        stopped clocked fallacy.

        the united states is in so many wars, they were bound to achieve one somewhat correctly.

        • Flying Squid
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          91 year ago

          The U.S. military also defeated the Confederacy. So that’s two.

        • @Organichedgehog
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          51 year ago

          Ok…? Does that dispute the point? Original comment said they were “never” a force for good

      • @captainlezbian
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        41 year ago

        Global force for better

        Good would’ve involved them allowing Spanish civil war vets to fight

      • @Nudding
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        11 year ago

        You know that was more so Russia right?

        • Flying Squid
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          41 year ago

          I would say it was a combined effort, but Russia suffered a lot more. They didn’t liberate Paris though.

          • @Nudding
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            -21 year ago

            It was a combined effort, but Russia did most of the work and lost most of the lives? Nice

            • Flying Squid
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              61 year ago

              The Russians did nothing on the Western Front or North Africa.

              But yes, they lost the most lives. I’m not sure why that means it wasn’t a collaborative effort. Are you claiming that if the U.S. and Britain had sat by and done nothing, Russia would have defeated Hitler singlehandedly and liberated Western Europe? Because I find that to be a very spurious claim if so.

            • @FireTower
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              01 year ago

              Suffering more losses does equate to contributing more to towards the victory. For example America’s Lend Lease Act didn’t cost American soldiers but contributed towards the allied victory.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Not really, no. And let’s ignore the part where the only reason they even fought is because Russia wanted to conquer some of the same land as Germany 😂

          • @RichCaffeineFlavor
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            Anticommunists never stop rewriting history to make the nazis look less bad

            • @[email protected]
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              Because Stalin didn’t invade Poland and the Baltic states, right? And he didn’t sign agreements with hitler before the war?

              Oh oh let me guess, they were “saving them from Nazis”! Now where have I heard that before…

              • @RichCaffeineFlavor
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                21 year ago

                The west constantly uses the memory of appeasement to justify its killings today but back when it was happening Stalin tried to start the war when Hitler could be easily crushed. It’s only after the west decided they would rather use the nazis to kill the communists than prevent the holocaust that deal was made.

                • @[email protected]
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                  01 year ago

                  What are you even talking about? Hitler attacked the Soviets, not the other way around. And it was because they broke their agreement and took territory that they said they wouldn’t.

                  Appeasement isn’t even relevant in this context, so not sure what you mean by that.

                  • @RichCaffeineFlavor
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                    11 year ago

                    “made a deal with Hitler”

                    What the fuck do you think appeasement was?