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!!!
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.
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!!!
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim
Of note, though, that the influence of the nazis on their space program was marginal. What they really got from them was stamping tech.
Yawn, everyone knows about operation paperclip
*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
USSR 🤝 USA (fuck them both)