“More than 80% of all combat during the Second World War took place on the Eastern Front.”
For a fantastic look into the history of fascism and Communism as bitter enemies, Blackshirts and Reds by Dr. Michael Parenti.
They destroyed Nazis? Probably a bad thing since prageru loves Nazis.
Edit - was barely awake posting this.
It’s a reply picture to their question, the Red Army defeated the Nazis and took Berlin. PragerU didn’t post the picture, though they certainly would see the defeat of Nazism as a bad thing of course. Dennis Prager has spelled it out as such, claiming Nazis were better people than Palestinians.
Yes, the United States and the other Western Powers played a role in WWII. The Eastern Front had 80% of the total combat in WWII contained within it, however. The absolute scale is massively different and the price paid was extremely unequal. This was by design, however. Harry Truman gave the game away:
If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.
Essentially, the Western Powers hated both the Communists and the Nazis, and allied in a manner that involved the most bloodshed on the Eastern Front as possible. That being said, they didn’t ally with the Nazis as the Nazis wanted to colonize Western Europe and the rest of the world, the West did not want to be subject to the same force of extraction they used to plunder the Global South, like the UK with India.
The West also realized that the Soviets had no intention of invading Western Europe, and thus the Soviets became the one deemed better to ally with in the end.
What do you mean?
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- Lenin died in 1924, WWII started in 1939
Edit: original comment said Lenin, they edited it to Stalin.
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The Nazis invaded Ukraine, the USSR’s breadbasket, in order to induce famine. This is because the Nazis wanted to practice Settler-Colonialism and thus commit genocide against the Soviet people, which caused a massive number of civilian deaths.
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The Red Army regrouped after being surprise attacked, and proceded to do 80% of the fighting in WWII against the Nazis.
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Scorched Earth was applied in limited form by the Soviets, blaming a defensive strategy on the victims of Nazi onslaught is confused logic.
In short, it was the genocidal form of warfare against the Soviets that the Nazis perpetrated that killed the vast majority of those who died in the USSR during WWII.
New low acheived. Attributing the nazi’s scorched earth policy on the eastern front to Stalin.
