we should come up with a good name for this subreddit

feared_rear_admiral · 8 days

That's an orthodox priest, bro. Probably should be meanwhile in Russia

lothlaurien · 21 days

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m34ck2nIFW1qzmodt.gif

lopo12 · 1 month

they didn't aim to exterminate 90% of them... the worst crimes of stalin were committed against russian and ukrainian people, not against the nations commonly referred to as eastern europe.

if the ukrainians thought that nazi occupation was so much better than their experience in the soviet union they would not have waged a massive guerrilla campaign against them

lopo12 · 1 month

only non-slavs in eastern europe are hungarians, estonians, and romanians. the rest mostly slavic. Valdincan is completely right, the Germans planned to exterminate the slavic populations of eastern europe to expand germany. I believe hitler even mentioned that 10% of the slavic population would be left to be used as slave labour.

The Russians may have not been angels but they are by far the lesser of two evils.

raptormeat · 1 month

It actually is better translated to "Motherland", that's where the whole motherland thing comes from in popculture depictions of Russia.

78523965412369874 · 2 months

and Russia skews it the other way

furburger · 2 months

Anyone else read the whole thing in Safrans voice?

destroy_musick · 3 months

Germans were masters of the Baltic states for centuries? They were part of the Russian Empire until the revolution and was part of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth before that.

Much of the implimentation of the Hunger Plan was done by the Wehrmacht. If you're going to get into that, most of the atrocities such as Katyn and terror against anti-communist entities were committed by the NKVD, not the Red Army.

Soviets were not welcoming toward German POWs but they did not exterminate them in their millions. In fact after the war East Germany was rebuilt and became the most successful economy in the Eastern Bloc, whereas in the Nazis had won they would have exterminated 80% of the population.

destroy_musick · 3 months

You're just looking at Poland there... look at the crimes committed on the entire Eastern Front. What the Wehrmacht and the SS did to Soviet citizens and POWs makes the common Western conception of the Holocaust pale in comparison.

destroy_musick · 3 months

Are you fucking serious here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Plan Judging from your comment history you do seem to harbour some Fascist sympathies but saying that the Soviets committed atrocities worse than the Nazis on the Eastern Front is utterly ridiculous.

EDIT: Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_of_Soviet_prisoners_of_war_by_Nazi_Germany

destroy_musick · 3 months

Soviet hordes? Soviet troops did commit their fair share of attrocities but it was nothing compared to what the Wehrmacht did in the Soviet Union...

squimblish · 3 months

Sounds like an evil plot by some sort of Engineering Sauron

bezdomniy · 4 months

I thought it was pretty funny, glad I made it down this far.

bante · 4 months

He must be a level 6 laser lotus

danielmartin25 · 6 months

Hotspot Shield works great for Hulu

a_small_thump · 6 months

Same here! Smoking was pretty great but I'm coming to appreciate that not smoking is even better.

Lunarsweets · 6 months

Like Richard Harrow from Boardwalk Empire

Rossyboy10 · 6 months

More like your House majority leader, rather. Westminister system has a speaker too.

Mediumtim · 6 months

Neuro2 never said it was the primary reason. It certainly contributed to it though.

Mediumtim · 6 months

Not sure why the downvotes, this is entirely correct. The Soviet Union had invaded most of the Japanese empire in mainland Asia and was prepared to invade Japan proper from the North...

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