• PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    5 months ago

    And the Ukrainians, and the Poles, and the French resistance, and the British, and the Americans, and the Canadians, and…

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      the soviets were the ones to bear the weight of all the casualties. while your heroes were sipping tea waiting for them to be destroyed by the nazis…

      the british, really? americans? yall need to open a history book. ever heard of operation paperclip? or how anticommunist most of these were?

      • PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        5 months ago

        Exactly, the country that shared a massive land border with the NAZIs and was a direct target of their aggression suffered many more casualties than the ones what didn’t, who’da thunk it? Without the combined efforts of essentially the entire rest of the world, the USSR would have been toast.

        • umbrella@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          5 months ago

          yall need some history. the USSR and germany did not share borders until much later, the west was nowhere to be found by the time they reached berlin.

          the us mostly really only helped by the end when victory over nazis was already on the horizon.