• quarkquasar@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    And the soviets, they did this all on their own? With their own local built equipment, arms and ammunition? All of their own intelligence? Very impressive if true.

    Far less impressive if not.

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      2 months ago

      Mostly, yes, the West was only busy trying to steal German oil colonies in Africa instead of actually fighting the Nazis.

      Not to liberate the people of course but to colonize the land themselves and steal the oil for themselves.

      America only swooped in after the Nazis had already been defeated at Stalingrad, and the Soviets were at the point of taking over all of Europe.

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        2 months ago

        And, let me guess, after that, the trees in Moscow grew rubles and Stalin himself sculpted the sun?

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          2 months ago

          After that NATO integrated many top Nazi leaders directly into leadership roles and put a Nazi official at the top of NATO not long after WW2 was over.

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            2 months ago

            And NATO was created because a bunch of allied countries were bored, with nothing to do and had too much money on their hands?