NOOOOOOOO YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT THE SOVIET UNIONS IMPERIALISM THEY WERE THE MAIN FORCE AGAINST COLONIALISM FOR 70 YEARS!! THEY ARE INHERENTLY ANTI-IMPERIALIST, LIBERAL!!! DON’T ASK WHAT THEY DID TO GET SO BIG OR WHEN WE WIN I’M PERSONALLY EXECUTING YOU!!!
OR WHEN WE WIN I’M PERSONALLY EXECUTING YOU!!!
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Keep it up and I’m bringing nachos, smartass.
I have to admit, I was bamboozled until the end. Well done
Did they actually take German scientists? Why have I never heard this?
Edit - well, there’s a wiki article and hike that i need to jump down. This doesn’t bore well for the MLs that insists the soviets killed all Nazis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_influence_on_Soviet_rocketry?wprov=sfla1
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Yawn, everyone knows about operation paperclip
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Of note, though, that the influence of the nazis on their space program was marginal. What they really got from them was stamping tech.
USSR 🤝 USA (fuck them both)
*1939
*joined Nazis in 1939, joined Allies in 1941.
The good ole Italian mambo (first to the axis, then to then to the allies… )
But the initial claim was “joined WWII in 1941” which is wrong.
Division of Poland was just a special military operation.
Yep
I was in Moscow around 2015 and while it’s by no means a perfect mirror it did in many ways have “Bizarro America” vibes. Big auth superpower nations just do certain things in common and do them very differently than smaller nations.
I was prepared to come in talking about how the US was giving support in Europe even if we weren’t formally in the war, but ya got me, OP. heh
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