• febra@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The soviets did what was right in order to protect polish jews and their own citizens from the german hordes. The nazi troglodytes made it extremely clear that they were going to attack the Soviet Union and leave nothing but scorched land behind them on their way to Moscow. Which they eventually did. The Soviet Union did the only smart thing at the time, which was to create a buffer zone while they were consolidating their military forces in order to eventually fight back against the germans, instead of just making the libs feel nice and letting the nazis take the entirety of Poland, as they were planning to anyways.

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      3 days ago

      No they didn’t. They were opportunist imperialists who stole land to build their empire and subjugate people. Stop trying to whitewash the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union.

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        2 days ago

        Those are no atrocities. The Soviet Union managed to save a ton of jews from the nazi hordes. In fact, most jews that stayed behind died in the Holocaust. The biggest group of jews that survived the holocaust were those deported from the frontlines by the soviets.

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          2 days ago

          Are Jews the only people in the world? How the hell can you say there were no atrocities unless you are completely ignorant of soviet history or are pushing a made up socialist fantasy propaganda? The soviets subjugated millions of central and eastern Europeans and murdered and deported countless people in their ethnic cleansing schemes. I suggest you read up on the NKVD and the forced population transfers and actually speak to people who lived under forced soviet rule - it fucking sucked.

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            24 hours ago

            I’m Eastern European. I think I know my fair share of people who lived in socialist countries. Gladly, we’re not all willing to swallow fascist capitalist propaganda.

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              24 hours ago

              What country do you live in and when were you born? Do you consider yourself as having Russian heritage?

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                24 hours ago

                No. I do not have Russian heritage, nor does my family. I’m Romanian, with a bit of jewish and Czech ancestry. I was born in the 90s. My family is working class. As were my grandparents, and their parents, and so on. Peasants and workers. Always lived in Romania

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                  23 hours ago

                  I was born in the 80s and live in Estonia. What the soviets have done is inexcusable. The mass rape, stolen land, families broken apart and people deported from their homeland. It is not propaganda. These things happened and every family has their own horrific experience to tell you.

                  The world deserves less suffering and it is not going to come at the hands of the Russians.