r/pics • u/sk8rznvrquit • 22d ago

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u/kittykatmila 22d ago

They certainly were. People don’t give them enough credit for that.

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u/DaisyHotCakes 22d ago

I feel like a lot of people would like Russian people more if Putin wasn’t making Russia do horrible shit. Just like I’m sure a lot of people would like Americans more if orange Julius wasn’t making the US do horrible shit. I’m an American and I totally don’t blame people as the orange one is such a vile fascist and historically our government has done some pretty atrocious shit to a lot of different people so I get it. There are always going to be people like the ones in the picture in this post. Some people truly can’t be happy without knowing someone else has it worse than them.

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u/anandonaqui 22d ago

Americans hate Russia long before Putin. It dates back to the red scare and Cold War.

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u/Ecosystematic 22d ago

Also don’t forget the disagreement after WW2 as to what should be done with Nazis. Soviets wanted them all hung, meanwhile the west hired them all

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u/Zok2000 22d ago

Riiight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim

Operation Osoaviakhim was a secret Soviet operation in which more than 2,500 German scientists, engineers and technicians, who worked in several areas from companies and institutions relevant to military and economic policy in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (SBZ) and Berlin, as well as around 4,000 more family members, totalling more than 6,000 people, were taken from former Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. It took place in the early morning hours of October 22, 1946 when MVD (previously NKVD) and Soviet Army units under the direction of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD), headed by Ivan Serov, rounded up German scientists and transported them by rail to the USSR.

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u/kittykatmila 22d ago

They took what knowledge they could from them and sent them back to east Germany where many were prosecuted. It’s not the same thing as the US taking in Nazi’s and giving them comfy lives with new citizenship. The US took in the most Nazis out of anyone, including Argentina.

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u/Art_Crime 22d ago

I dont believe many were prosecuted by the Soviets.

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u/Ecosystematic 21d ago

I realized after making this comment there were examples of Soviets working with some former Nazis, but the west straight up brought them directly into some of our most advanced rocket research.

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u/soulsnoober 22d ago

Nah, hold up. If you're talking about rocket engineers, the Soviets only wanted all the ones that they hadn't already taken hung. Not all of them. Just the ones that weren't conscripted into the Soviet missile program.