mattyroses

Yeah, you see an ugly pattern in lots of propaganda talking points against Russia, from WWI through now. "Russians are savage (Asiatic) orcs who don't respect human life. So it's good to kill them indiscriminately"

The hypocrisy there never seems to matter

I don't disagree. But that's the main thing that wasn't gladio, etc that helped fuck the parties in Western Europe.

You're not giving critical support to the people. You're giving it to the government.

You want to go support that war, they're looking for volunteers, my little chickenhawk. Why don't you go relieve a conscript, since you think the struggle is so important?

Lo dijiste muy bien, camarada

Both Hungary and Prague were huge PR disasters in Europe for the USSR though.

Except the majority of these were civilian casualties, not military. So it means the Axis was methodically murdering people.

"Russia is indifferent to deaths" is a propaganda narrative, but WWII data doesn't match it.

Yeah. The picture in the US is the Soviets just buried the Germans with dead, but military losses weren't that uneven. What was is civilian deaths, since the Nazis were just massacring everyone.

Overlord was a year after Stalingrad, which is where the war turned on the Eastern Front.

Just look at German losses on each front. Dday put a big nail in the coffin - but the Axis was already bleeding to death then.

Poland had seized land in Czechoslovakia with Germany, and tye USSR had been rebuffed from alliance with most western powers already (despite going as far as preventing the Spanish Republic from collectivizing land in an effort to make them happy).

If the USSR holds blame for the start, so does the UK and France.

Switch?

To be fair, the kid did not say "I'm walking here"

Yeah, I'm not a tankie, my little chickenhawk. Just an actual communist who understands "no war but class war". But I guess cheering on more troops into the grinder seems fine to you from far away.

Živio Tito, smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu, i jebem ti majku.