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[–] jeffw 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What do you mean? There are only a handful of countries that were on the winning side of both World Wars and both the US and Russia are among them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Russia made it through WWII solely because of US aid.

That aid is now flowing into Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Russian Federation =/= USSR

[–] BigilusDickilus 2 points 2 months ago

Russia lost in WWI before it ended, they were essentially knocked out of the war before the revolution and Bolsheviks made the official.

[–] foggy -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Let's count the deaths and reevaluate what it means to win.

[–] jeffw 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Lots of Russians died in WWII, yes (actually just realizing I don’t know anything about the breakdown of casualties or deaths in WWI). But if you count the number of casualties inflicted I imagine it would scale with losses experienced. Except for the USA, since we kinda cheated with the whole Hiroshima and Nagasaki thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The eastern front was vicious, the western front wasn’t. Hardly a fair comparison.