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Stalin should’ve rolled the Finns all the way to their capital
‘Exiled the nazis’ where to? The ground? POW camps then back to Germany?
Probably should have paperclipped them into Soviet society, made them the puppet rules of half of postwar Germany and commander of NATO like the civilised west
i get what you’re going for but the USSR absolutely did have their own operation paperclip
Yeah they did cynically extract some nazis with valuable scientific knowledge, but they didn’t make any of those war criminals heads of government agencies like Werner Von Braun and NASA
The massive contrast in the political influence of those Nazis had, and that people like Von Braun were rehabilitated in the domestic public eye, should obviate explaining the difference between the two programs
Regardless is that what you think they meant by ‘exliling the nazis’?
I would argue there is a slight difference between being officially hired for your nazi mind and being forced at gun point to produce rockets
yeah there is, though they should have shot them after imo
The remaining Axis scientists whom the Soviets captured still had to live in unglamorous conditions: on some projects the Soviet authorities limited the rôle of the Axis specialists merely to consultation and practical training.
Finally, three anticommunist rocket experts confirmed that by 1952 the U.S.S.R. had sent most of these Axis scientists back home, and that the Soviets (obviously) made major strides on their own. (One cannot say the same for Imperial America.)
yes, i am obviously aware
It’s a free footnote.
fair enough, sorry i’m a little cranky today
judging by the username it’s a finn, opinion duly discarded
RAAAGH WITHOUT THE RED ARMY EASTERN EUROPE WOULD LITERALLY ALL BE GERMANY RAAAGH
A union which helped reconstruct Poland was worse than a régime that devastated Polish infrastructure and massacred 1.8 million Poles? I was unaware that anticommunists hated Polish people so much.
