10mo ago

The Cold War Illustrated

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Not just the US, though Nazi soldiers intentionally tried to end up as US POWs rather than anything else, and avoided being Soviet POWs rather than anything else.
- Not just the US
  Yeah, their Western vassal states also, and areas under its neocolonial sway.
  Nazis were afraid of the Soviets because the Red Army knew there was only one way to deal with facsists. Unlike the US who valued fascists and utilized them extensively during the cold war to fight against socialist movements particularly in Latin America and Africa.
  Though it is very on brand for a pro-US clown to stamd up for their pet fascists
  
  Oh, of course! Thought that carried over from my comment implicitly.
  
  The fascists were afraid of the other fascists. Big surprise there.
- yeah because they treated them like fucking kings and not the monsters they were, because there is no ideological difference between amerikkka and nazi germany, the only difference is that germany tried to genocide people who were too close to white for other europeans to not give a shit.
  
  Correct. Death to Amerikkka.
- slaps roof
  "We can siphon so much money from taxpayers with this baby."
- The nazi's copying the US colonialist model, but in eastern europe:
I hope Isildur's heir returns to bring communism to save the West from the US
Doesn't work because Sauron didn't get all his ideas from Isildur's Jim Crow society.
- Are you under the impression that the USSR still exists?
  
  Are you under the impression that the USSR still exists?
  At least one sad bald man in Kreml certainly wants it to return
Actually the USSR wanted to cooperate with Nazi Germany. The only problem was them invading the USSR. You cannot just bend the facts.
- Actually, the USSR repeatedly tried to form an alliance with western powers against nazi Germany. You cannot just bend the facts.
  
  USSR 🤝 Nazi Germany Src: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93Soviet_Union_relations,_1918%E2%80%931941 (see Soviet negotiations regarding joining the Axis)
- Why would the Communists want to ally with the most rabid and violent anticommunists on the planet?
  
  First of all because they did (facts). Second of all, because they weren’t true communists and just established a dictatorship based on propagated communism.
What about Operation Osoaviakhim?
- last I checked Soviets didn't proceed to put them into highest levels of government
  
  Indeed, but even hiring and giving citizenship for such people (nazi scientists, military and engineers), especially considering how they got their "knowledge" isn't an "ok" thing. Neither for US's Paperclip.
- Idk, what about it?
  
  Both US and USSR secretly hired nazi personnel, such as scientists and engineers. Later, both operations were disclosed respectively as Operation Paperclip and Operation Osoaviakhim. USSR didn't destroy nazi-fascism, they secretly incorporated it (that is, if I correctly understood the reference from the meme, maybe I'm needlessly "ranting").

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