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Just remember this whenever 'Snowflakes' are brought up 😊 (lemmy.world)

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[–] PugJesus 52 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Explanation: In the spirit of total dipshittery that fascist regimes are known for, the Nazi forces in 1941 decided they would betray the Soviet Union, recently their ally of convenience in destroying Poland, and launch a surprise attack in the summer. Sensible enough, invading in the summer, right?

Well, the Nazis expected to win the whole fucking war inside of six months (with Hitler predicting victory inside of three months), and so brought no winter equipment. And as the fighting intensified in the coming four years, they had trouble supplying their troops with even their ordinary needs, much less being able to supply them with good winter gear. So a lot of Nazi popsicles were left on Soviet land, even before the Soviets began to push the fascist cretins out.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

As I've heard, Nazis got the same problem in 2022.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And the funny part is the soviets then got destroyed in finland by the winter once again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The Finnish winter war occurred prior to operation Barbarossa, and was frequently referenced in justification for the Soviet Union being unable to repel an invasion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh sorry i dont know the dates and stuff very well.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also: the USSR only initially got beaten by the Finns. They then threw a much larger chunk of their military into the fray, forcing Finland to capitulate and yield up even more territory than what the USSR had initially demanded, which demands started the war in the first place. Hitler famously took that war as evidence of Russia's weakness, when he should have taken it as evidence that Russia would keep throwing in its vast reserves of manpower despite horrific initial losses.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago

Same thing thats happening in ukraine.... russia trying to resist commiting a genocide against its own and other countries people for 2 seconds challange. I still think a somewhat reasonable solution would have been to split of russia(still kinda is if theres a ww3). You would ban the independant republics from unifying and would provide defense(which they need) to them nato style. After a while the different ethnic, religious, language and cultural groups would develop enough patriatism that they wouldnt want to unite again. Idk if this would actually work but its good as a headcannon. Also i really want to visit siberia and stuff so russia please just fuck off. Also i want world peace but we know that not happening soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Thank you for your excellent reply. My first thought was “is this a reference to Stalingrad?” Even still, I didn’t recognize how important the Battle of Stalingrad was until I read about it again. The Red Army, and the citizens of Stalingrad, are heroes for refusing to give in to the Nazis.

[–] Limonene 2 points 5 days ago

You'd think they would learn, if they had read their history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Winter

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 4 points 5 days ago

"This OS Kills Fascists"

[–] needthosepylons 3 points 4 days ago

Stealin that one properly!