They sided with the fascists and were backstabbed. Its difficult to imagine the allies winning without them but at least the allies choose to fight fascism.
Yeah. “Themselves” is a dangeroously inaccurate historical take and it’s discouraging to see it get so many upvotes on Lemmy. What is that even a reference to? Hitler’s suicide? Sheesh.
20 million dead soviets might beg to differ.
Fwiw, “the communists” is what came to my mind. They shot Mussolini and captured Berlin. Difficult to imagine any defeat without the communists.
They sided with the fascists and were backstabbed. Its difficult to imagine the allies winning without them but at least the allies choose to fight fascism.
I see what you mean and I make a distinction bw the Soviets and the communists. Is that valid? I think so and ymmv
Yeah. “Themselves” is a dangeroously inaccurate historical take and it’s discouraging to see it get so many upvotes on Lemmy. What is that even a reference to? Hitler’s suicide? Sheesh.
they suicidally did their part
true commie martyrs like in ukraine