• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    22 hours ago

    If he hadn’t been, would the USSR survived? That focus on technology, factories, and efficiency, no matter the cost, seems like the right approach when there’s Nazis at your doorstep, conquering all of Europe and conducting mass exterminations.

    • Oniononon@sopuli.xyz
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      4 hours ago

      Ussr survived thanks to allied aid and got to go on conquering all of europe and conducting mass extermination while putting other mass murderers in power who went on to cause some of the largest and most sadisic mass murders.

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      16 hours ago

      Nothing says “preparing for war against the Nazis and capitalists” like murdering your entire officer corps of true believers that won the Revolution that you didn’t actually fight in