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Based Soviets (lemmy.ml)
submitted 15 hours ago by jackeroni@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 6 points 5 hours ago

The war is over. I have already painted you as the sullen and grey imperialist, and myself as the glowing and unperturbed Kim Il-sung. screm-cool

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 18 points 12 hours ago
[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 18 points 13 hours ago

10 downvotes in an hour yet not one comment.

Guess they can't actually explain it after all.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 hours ago

They automatically downvote Comrade Jackeroni, they're living rent free in their heads

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Actually, communists executing the Nazis actually proves that they're worse than the Nazis, actually

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 hours ago

Ah, the Winston Churchill school of thought.

[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 12 hours ago

I think its important to point out that although not to the extent of the west at all the soviets were also far from perfect at purging instead of "strategically using" Nazis.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 hours ago

As @DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net said, there's a huge difference between selectively using Nazis for their knowledge on R&D while keeping them on a tight leash, imprisoning, and even executing them, and what the West did, which involved giving them cushy jobs, erasing their crimes, and putting them in the highest seats of leadership of organizations like NATO. The West loved the Nazis (still does), the Soviets hated them.

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 10 points 9 hours ago

The difference being the Soviet-captured Nazis were forced at gunpoint to contribute to their R&D projects, being treated as prisoners before either being imprisoned or executed. NATO made its first supreme commander an SS member, put so many Nazis in the West German government that there were actually a higher percentage of them there than in the actual Third Reich, and let von Braun live a long and comfortable life as a free man.

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