Post #2629193
2026-05-04 18:37 UTC
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@My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 19:03
The sacrifice and courage of Soviet soldiers in the face of Nazi aggression is profound and worthy of admiration, yes. Should be noted that Stalin was a Hitler-enabler and early ally, or at least subtle collaborator, leading up to the onset of the war. The western democracies should have done a better job of building a coalition with Stalin in the thirties, but failed, hoping appeasement and hand-wringing would do the trick instead. Soviet soldiers also invaded Finland around that time and were complete assholes there, even if they did get their asses handed to them by a numerically-inferior, but fierce fighting source. It's sad that most of the slaughter was inflicted upon Ukrainian conscripts who probably didn't actually give a shit about annexing Finland.
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@panthera_@lemmy.today 2026-05-05 03:07
Remember that Ukraine was part of the Red Army. One of the Soviet units attacking Berlin was 1st Ukrainian Front.
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@Gsus4@mander.xyz 2026-05-04 20:20
And what percentage of the red army was Ukrainians, Georgians, Armenians, Azeris, Khazakhs, etc? russofascist revisionism and appropriation is cancer too.
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@frongt@lemmy.zip 2026-05-04 21:57
Fun facts about that image, it's been altered to remove a second, likely looted, watch from his wrist, and smoke added for dramatic effect. It's propagandized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_a_Flag_over_the_Reichstag