• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    36
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    5 months ago

    Remember, we didn’t beat the fascists during WWII using arguments and polite discussion. We bashed the fash back then, we can and must bash the fash today.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      5 months ago

      we didn’t beat the fascists during WWII using arguments and polite discussion

      Ironically enough, we beat the fascists with a command economy aimed squarely at maximizing war materiel production. Free enterprise my ass …

      • cows_are_underrated@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        14
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        They surely did their part, but it wasn’t only them. USA also had a quite important role in it. Yeah, the USSR won Stalingrad and pushed the German force back, but after the USA landed in the Normandy Germany had to fight at 2 fronts, which reduced the amount of casualties on the allied sides. Would the USSR be able to win the war without the USA? Maybe, I seriously don’t know, but saying that they were the one winning the war is kind of ignorant.

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          5 months ago

          Would the USSR be able to win the war without the USA?

          FWIW Kruschev said no fucking way, despite later claims of the Soviet leadership to have not needed US support. US-supplied weapons weren’t very important, but US food and trucks and petroleum allowed Soviet industry to focus primarily on weapons production.

        • Wiz@midwest.social
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          5 months ago

          Had Russia won any war ever? Maybe not, except the internal ones against themselves.

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        9
        ·
        5 months ago

        The USSR didn’t exist then dumbass. Do they not teach history at Edgelord University?