• diprount_tomato
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      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

        • diprount_tomato
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          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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            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!

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

      • Flying Squid
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        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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            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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              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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                111 months ago

                Bad countries can’t do good things?

                  • Flying Squid
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                    211 months ago

                    So it was bad to defeat the Nazis and the Confederates?

    • originalucifer
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      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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        911 months ago

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

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

    • @captainlezbian
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      411 months ago

      Global force for better

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

    • @Nudding
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      111 months ago

      You know that was more so Russia right?

      • Flying Squid
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        411 months 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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          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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            611 months 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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            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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        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

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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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              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.

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                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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                  111 months ago

                  “made a deal with Hitler”

                  What the fuck do you think appeasement was?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    In the context of WW2 appeasement refers to Britain and the rest of Europe giving pieces of Czechoslovakia to Germany. Not a deal between the Soviets and Germany to carve up Eastern Europe.

                    It’s ok keep working on your English!