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[โ€“] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

USSR ๐Ÿค USA (fuck them both)

[โ€“] SalamenceFury@piefed.social 64 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

NOOOOOOOO YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT THE SOVIET UNIONS IMPERIALISM THEY WERE THE MAIN FORCE AGAINST COLONIALISM FOR 70 YEARS!! THEY ARE INHERENTLY ANTI-IMPERIALIST, LIBERAL!!! DON'T ASK WHAT THEY DID TO GET SO BIG OR WHEN WE WIN I'M PERSONALLY EXECUTING YOU!!!

[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OR WHEN WE WIN Iโ€™M PERSONALLY EXECUTING YOU!!!

Don't threaten me with a good time

[โ€“] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

Keep it up and I'm bringing nachos, smartass.

[โ€“] Geobloke@aussie.zone 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Did they actually take German scientists? Why have I never heard this?

Edit - well, there's a wiki article and hike that i need to jump down. This doesn't bore well for the MLs that insists the soviets killed all Nazis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_influence_on_Soviet_rocketry?wprov=sfla1

[โ€“] imacatnotaman@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Even better, the CIA also brought in Nazis in order to use them against the USSR (Operation Paperclip). The CIA, and its predecessors have always been incompetent.

[โ€“] Geobloke@aussie.zone 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yawn, everyone knows about operation paperclip

[โ€“] imacatnotaman@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Maybe outside the US. You might be surprised how little our media (or educators) holds our government accountable lol

[โ€“] Aqarius@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Of note, though, that the influence of the nazis on their space program was marginal. What they really got from them was stamping tech.

[โ€“] SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 38 points 1 day ago

I have to admit, I was bamboozled until the end. Well done

[โ€“] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 day ago

I was in Moscow around 2015 and while it's by no means a perfect mirror it did in many ways have "Bizarro America" vibes. Big auth superpower nations just do certain things in common and do them very differently than smaller nations.

[โ€“] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

*1939

[โ€“] nexguy@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

*joined Nazis in 1939, joined Allies in 1941.

[โ€“] theolodis@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But the initial claim was "joined WWII in 1941" which is wrong.

[โ€“] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Division of Poland was just a special military operation.

[โ€“] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago

The good ole Italian mambo (first to the axis, then to then to the allies.. )

[โ€“] daychilde@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I was prepared to come in talking about how the US was giving support in Europe even if we weren't formally in the war, but ya got me, OP. heh