• KnowledgeableNip@sh.itjust.works
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    He knows the Soviets beat the Allies to Berlin, right?

    Oh who am I kidding. If it’s not printed on a menu and handed out with crayons, he’s unaware.

  • Lupus@feddit.org
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    saying ‘nobody was close to us in terms of bravery

    Yeah tell that to the 13 million dead Sowjet soldiers.

    For perspective that is more than the current inhabitants of Belgium or Bolivia.

    Adding 14 million dead Soviet citizens - 27 million dead, that’s more people than currently living in Australia.

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      Or the British SAS that were busy from the very beginning of the war… Or the British soldiers that tried help France against the imvasion.

      Or the Dutch and the French resistance.

      Or the Danish government, who through surrender and platitudes, kept the Nazis distracted while the Danish, Swedish, and Nordic Underground smuggled Jews and dissenters to America.

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        Or the British soldiers that tried help France against the imvasion.

        Or to smuggle out the portrait of the Fallen Madonna with the big boobies in a salami.

        (Edit: woke up and fixed the title)

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    Oh dear God, I am so so so very tired of saying “What a fucking moron,” every goddam time I see a headline with his name in it.

    I was over it four years ago and it feels like some cruel joke that I’m saying it again day after day.

  • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
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    If May 8th was victory day for WW2 why did the US keep fighting until August. What war were they fighting… so confused

    Edit. Holy cow you gullible idiots. Of course it’s a joke. VE Day was “victory Europe.” For the US to rename it as victory ww2 day is stupid since the US continued fighting until August. Russia didn’t fight Japan so they had May Day as a celebratory date. Trump is an idiot and so some others…

        • Literally from the Wikipedia link you listed:

          The Soviet Union and Mongolian People’s Republic toppled the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo in Manchuria and Mengjiang in Inner Mongolia, as well as northern Korea, Karafuto on the island of Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. The defeat of Japan’s Kwantung Army helped bring about the Japanese surrender and the end of World War II. The Soviet entry into the war was a significant factor in the Japanese government’s decision to surrender unconditionally, as it was made apparent that the Soviet Union was not willing to act as a third party in negotiating an end to hostilities on conditional terms.

          Not that the writing wasn’t on the wall for the Japanese thanks to the US efforts in the war, but that wasn’t enough for them to surrender just yet. It’s speculated that the Soviet entry may have been more important than the A-bomb in the end.

    • Destide@feddit.uk
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      No because you didn’t put an /s and I have to always have a sense of being right for points. I have grown to hate how pedantic Lemmy gets sometimes now days. Can’t make a joke without a six page essay so morons don’t get confused in their rush to feel superior.

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    I literally don’t understand how renaming “Victory in Europe” day to “Victory Day for World War Two” downplays the role of allied forces. Also, what are they calling VP day now?