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[-] Shrubbery@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago
[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good catch, I have edited it accordingly. Real "giving the nobel peace prize to Henry Kissinger and the guys he is currently dropping chemical weapons on" vibes.

Also: Holy shit, Chiang Kai-Shek is there for 1937.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 8 hours ago

I wish they'd put the articles behind those covers on their site, rather than just simple biographies. I'd like to read how people like Hitler and Stalin were perceived in the run up to WW2. Stalin in 39 is particularly interesting because that's just after Molotov-Ribbentrop has been signed and WW2 has started with the Russian allied to the Germans.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 hours ago

The USSR never allied with the Germans, it was a non-aggression pact, made after the USSR failed to get Britain, France, or Poland to support them in invading Germany in response to Czechoslovakia. Instead Britain, France, and Poland signed the Munich Agreement, dividing Czechoslovakia between Germany and Poland.

To be clear, even after the invasion of Poland in 1940, the western powers intended to support Germany against the USSR, Britain even tried to send troops to support Germany's ally, Finland in the winter war, after the invasion of Poland, and was only prevented when it ended too quickly.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 27 minutes ago

Mmmmm. I think I disagree.

Germany and the Soviets had agreed a boundary between the lands they both wanted to conquer. The deal was that the Soviets would take eastern Europe and Germany the west. Hence both countries invading Poland in 1939. Non-aggression is one way of putting it. Dividing Europe between them is another. Both aggressors against Europe.

And then Finland. The Winter War was a defensive war against the USSR and didn't involve Germany. They then exploited it when Operation Barbarossa commenced and continued pushing the soviets back. Finally, once that was done, they joined the fight against the Germans. To say they were allied with the Germany just because the both were engaged with fighting the USSR at the same time is wrong.

[-] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

Person of the year is not a honorific. It just means most important or influential.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

excuse me i won person of the year and i'm taking it as an honorific

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Time Magazine Person of the Year is for the most influential person of the year. Not the best, or most admirable. Merely the greatest agent of change.

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