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

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
    361·
    2 years ago

    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:

      • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
        33·
        2 years ago

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

        • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmygrad.ml
          25·
          2 years ago

          This is pretty much why Cold War anti-communist rhetoric reaches down to citizens through controlled media, to instill a sense of paralysis against revolutionary critical thought and action.

          • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
            19·
            2 years ago

            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.

            • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmygrad.ml
              15·
              2 years ago

              The fundamental contradictions remain almost untouched in superimperialist capitalism. When your core is rotten, you can either work against core (impossible) or become one with the core. It would only have delayed the inevitable, with an even worse problem of literally dried pulp equivalent Middle East, Russia and other countries.

              • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
                7·
                2 years ago

                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.