by Salo Uronili RUS » Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:53 am
And, of course, these disgusting phenomena are the equalization of the USSR and Nazi Germany, the accusation of the USSR in cooperation with Germany at the beginning of the war, as well as the belittling of the role of the USSR. What can I say:
1. Yes, these were 2 totalitarian regimes, but we mustn't forget about ideologies hostile to each other, Hitler's racist theory, numerous attempts by Soviet diplomacy in the 1930s to build a defensive alliance against Hitler in Europe.
2. The USSR signed a pact with Hitler (by the way, like many other European countries before), when all these attempts were exhausted, after the Munich agreement at 1938, and in order to gain some time.
3. Hitler purposefully killed millions of people in Europe (not only Jews), but the USSR with allies destroyed Hitler. The USSR did not commit comparable atrocities in those countries from which the Germans were knocked out. We were not perfect, but in general we performed a liberation mission.
4. We just left Finland and Norway. In other countries, after our arrival, communist regimes arose, yes, but they didn't arise simply on our bayonets. Communist ideology at that time became really very popular. Even in Italy there were about 60,000 communist partisans (info from Western literature), and Yugoslavia created the communist state almost independently. Therefore, don't believe the lies about the communist occupation. Tales of repression, GULAG, commissars, etc. - this is true, but communism cannot be associated only with this - it's grotesque.
5. The USSR lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers in eastern Europe and Germany. Now the monuments to our military are being destroyed, their graves are desecrated. This is done out of hatred of communism. But if these soldiers didn't die, would those who do it now live?