/c/nottheonion: Moscow hit by massive drone raid for second night ahead of Victory Day parade
Ukraine drones attack Moscow, disrupt Victory Day planning in Russia
This was mod-removed from !nottheonion@lemmy.world.
The URL is changed; the original link was to one of those "Ukraine war live updates" pages which has since moved on from featuring the drone attacks.
@betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world The Soviets had joined up with the Nazis; they only "switched" because the Nazis didn't want them anymore. Then, after the switch they got busy wasting their soldiers' lives because what's the difference we've got more, and the soldiers got busy committing war crimes. Then once the war was over the Soviets repaid a lot of the surviving soldiers by sending them to the Gulag.
Also, as a side note, the communists in Germany who had helped splinter the left and hand power to Hitler, who had by then adopted a hard line pro-Stalinist platform and were trying to save Germany from the liberals by enacting communism and aligning with the USSR because communism is the answer, generally got executed by the USSR if they managed to make it out alive. Stalin killed a higher percentage of their leadership than Hitler had, and also assisted Hitler in killing a bunch of the German ones before the war, because of course he did.
Not to say the non-Soviet allies had any short supply of war crimes against their enemies either, but there was a massive difference of kind and degree, and they at least mostly were good to their friends. There is a reason that everyone in Europe at that time and after the war was risking their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to get as far west as they could manage.
Not a great time for the average Russky, your choices boil down to "fucked" or "fuckeder". Hope their next post-purge government treats them better than the current one and past few but it probably won't.
There is no and never were any kind of 'silent opposition', absolute majority of them support war wholehartedly, their next government would be the same, as long as their empire exists nothing will change.
Never said there was, my hopes are disconnected from my expectations. I hope people all stop being shit and would just pet dogs together and use their finite time/resources to enjoy being here without hurting each other. I expect that the lying, cheating, stealing and killing will continue instead.
