On this day in 1943 all Nazi resistance in Stalingrad was erased, ending the largest battle in history and marking a great defeat of the fascists

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  4. ITT: A shit ton of people who haven’t studied the history discussing which of a 100 wrong sides is the right.

  5. Let’s not commemorate a battle in which hundreds of thousands of people died in horrible conditions… do you really think all those soldiers on the front had posters of Hitler in their bedroom?

  7. I think people forget that Russia lost the most people fighting the Nazis. America has sort of shifted the narrative over the years, understating the Soviet sacrifices and overemphasizing their own part. America definitely played a critical role in the defeat of the Nazis, but during the Cold War they wanted the Soviets to look evil.

  11. Whoever says communism was “as bad” as Nazism literally should be excluded from any kind of political discussion. If you can’t acknowledge the singularity of the Holocaust you understand nothing.

  13. Wow, I’m sure these comments will be civil and respectful to all those who gave their lives to end the nazi regime

  14. *Edit/ Disclaimer: This isn’t about downplaying anything. This isn’t about Holocaust vs Holodomor, Hitler vs Stalin, Germany vs Russia, it is about showing that the Sovjets werent much better than the Germans. It isnt about who was good, who was bad – they were both horrific dictatorships. Way too much people glorify the Sovjets, which is something which nearly no one does with the Germans. Glorifying anything about each of these Dictatorships is wrong.*

    Don’t act like the Sovjets were any better. They were just evil in their kind of way. Stalins regime killed at least 20 million people apart from the War inside of the UDSSR. 1.7 million deaths in the Gulags alone, forced resettlements, deportations, executions and a genocide called Holodomor.

    The Holodomor, the genocide of the Sovjets against the Ukrainians, killed 6 million people. Thats as much (Edit: jewish) people as Germany killed in the Camps. Additionally to the intern massacres, the Sovjets also threw 26 million sovjets into the meat grinder to stop the 6 million german Soldiers. All in all the Sovjets oppressed and used everyone who didn’t live in the russian heartland. Entire eastern Europe and everything east of the ural mountains was just satellite states or colonized areas which were used for the russian profit. The sovjets might have defeated the Nazis after big big losses, but they werent any better. Its not about who was the bigger monster, its about both were monsters.

  21. Oh boy, this comment section was even worse than expected.
    Although considering OP’s post history includes a whole lot of tankie with a few Russian post flairs, probably had it coming.

  23. I will not take bait.

    Bait is the mind-killer.

    Bait is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

    I will face my bait.

    I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

    And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

    Where the bait has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

  36. The comments here are a literal cluster fck lol

    Let’s settle with nazis – communists = equally evil, since it all depends solely on which side of the iron curtain your country ended up with.

    My country (and not just mine) lost 13% of its overall population because of the nazis, it’s simply unthinkable from our point of view to say that the communists were worse then the nazis even if you bring up dozens of examples of communist atrocities, which I won’t dispute although counter with equal number of nazi atrocities.

    That being said there’s no question if the Russians are nowadays acting like literal fascist – nazis. It’s an indisputable fact. But it’s also an indisputable fact that the Soviets eventually kicked the nazis ass back then and we who got fckd by the nazis will always remember and comemorate it.

  37. Fuck both Nazi Germany and USSR – evil, inhumane regimes, which light of still burns brightly in present Russia.

    There, now can we stop quarrelling and glamorizing lesser evil?

  39. A great victory for the Soviet nations. It is not a communist victory; this was a heroic effort of the patriots fighting a war for the homeland.

  40. No matter how we feel about today’s Russia or this fucker named Stalin we must admit….Eternal glory to the Russian warriors of WW2. Without them we’d probably be dead or at best eating bratwurst

  42. The Soviets were bad. The Nazis were worse. Ukrainians, Belarussians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and more would not exist if the Nazis won instead of the Soviets. This doesn’t excuse the millions killed by USSR killed in purges, famines, prisons, wars, etc. Both sides were horrifying, but one side literally had genocide and racial supremacy as an ideology. At least the Soviets pretended that they were an equal federation even if Russian was forcefully spread and RSFSR had final say in all matters.

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