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[–] [email protected] 92 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

It's kinda funny when Ukrainian fascists had promoted idiotic view that USSR=Russia and Ukraine was an occupied country instead of an equal part, and now meet consequences of this view.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, leave it to a Ukrainian flag username to erase the heroism of the Ukrainians in the Red Army in order to fellate the Americans

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago

Spitting on the graves of antifascist heroes to honor not-Hitler is a liberal tradition

[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Liberals erased actual Ukrainian history with random fascists who committed massacres for a few years before dying.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Really funny to see all the MAGA patriots going to bat for the Soviet Union in the replies

[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That’s only because Trump is doing it. If Biden did it they’ll call him a Stalinist

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

For sure, hilarious nonetheless

[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 months ago

bizarro horseshoe theory

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If it ends with some of them seeing through anticommunist propaganda, it would be very funny.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No shot, they are doing it purely out of reflex because Trump said it

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

It won't. They'll just use this as a "gotcha lib owned with facts and logick" and forget about it in 5 seconds.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This country is incredibly fucked when such simple, elementary school facts like the Soviet Union defeated the Nazis always gets such push back.

also the fact that Trump knows more about WWII history apparently than tons of libs... who am I supposed to hate again? the pro-Nazi idiots rejecting history simply because it reflects well upon a socialist country that doesn't even exist anymore?????? like fuck man

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The consequences of Orange Man Bad Thought.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

TBF the “America single-handedly defeated the Nazis with the English as a goofy sidekick and Russia somewhere off to the side” brainworms predate Trump by decades.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Guys give him a break. He’s Forbes’ Top Economic Thinker. It’s not his fault he’s stupid.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 months ago

You use the flag of a country that openly celebrates a Nazi collaborator. Sit this one out and think about thatgulag

[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 months ago

The United States beat Hitler with the help of Captain America, Namor the Sub-Mariner, the Human Torch and The Whizzer amerikkka-clap

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The guy is doubling down by trying to say Ukraine and Belarus lost more combatants than Russia and also Germany wouldn't have been defeated without the US and UK.

Yeah except the Nazis were already retreating from the eastern front by the time D-Day happened. The US and UK were instrumental in getting the Nazis out of France and Italy, but the troops marching into Berlin were Soviets.

This guy is a PhD and works for Forbes? Quality intellectuals that America has crafted. We have our own self-replicating ghoul class who aren't even cynical even more, they legit believe all the ghoul propaganda.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ukr flag emoji surprised-pika-messed-up

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I mean, the USSR did, which included a lot of Ukrainians such as Lyudmila Pavlichenko.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago

Westerners and now recently modern Ukraine has been pushing hard to separate all Ukrainian history from the USSR aside from being "oppressed." So naturally the average burger will think USSR = Russia = Russia did everything good or bad in WWII.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (2 children)

i remember a really good graph from a history book(?) showing public opinion every few years in response to the question "who is most responsible for the defeat of germany in ww2" and in 1945, it was like 80%+ of respondents saying USSR, but as the years go by, USSR's share shrinks, and the US' increases.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Holy Propagada. How can people forget such things.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

love that 911 made the US bar go even higher for a bit

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago

Literally overheard 2 guys arguing about this in a parking lot just now lol

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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