People are posting wiki articles with non existent “sources” as proof the soviets were going to join the axis and helped the Nazis.

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    Also like 2 of them are even smiling, pretty sad “celebration”. Looks to me like on both sides even ordinary troopers knew they are enemies with eachother.

    While for example, this happened while Soviets and Americans met, when both side soldiers genuinly considered themselves allies:

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      Seeing the Soviet and US soldiers celebrating together makes me sad, in another world we could have all been comrades…

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        That’s probably why the US went so hard during the cold war. They had to disrupt any notion of solidarity whatsoever.

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            Just imagine how far the ruling class would get if westerners had been allowed to see Iraqis, Afghans, Libyans, Syrians, Palestinians, Russians, and even Ukrainians as fully human and as fundamentally peaceful as anyone else. Not very far at all, I’d wager.

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                I see that but if they had been allowed, material conditions would have been different…

                Edit: just to clarify this because it might seem that I was doubling down, which was not my intention. I meant that for westerners to have been taught and allowed to humanise people they have been taught to other, it would mean that the material conditions were already changed. I did not mean that material conditions would have changed just because e.g. westerners were allowed to develop their own views without those views being influenced by propaganda. @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmygrad.ml, you’re extremely right to point out that westerners simply thinking differently would not alter the contradictions that lead capitalists into endless wars.

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        A world where we’d be shitposting American flags and pictures of William Z. Foster