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Tommy Carcetti

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10. More accurately, the Soviet people

Reply to flashman13 (Reply #7)

Sun May 31, 2026, 01:01 PM

6 hrs ago

The people fighting under the Red Army were not just ethnically Russian but rather from the various other Soviet republics as well.

And they all still suffered horribly under Stalin.

Except those like my family who fled, not wanting to be a part of either the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.

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In a time when we have a President who refuses to take responsibility for anything, I thought I would like to [View all] flashman13 20 hrs ago OP

They don't make Republicans like that anymore MustLoveBeagles 20 hrs ago #1

Ike was the VERY LAST DECENT REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT! Enter stage left 20 hrs ago #2

... Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those struggle4progress 19 hrs ago #5

Amen! flashman13 6 hrs ago #6

Even traitorous, shitheel R.E. Lee took credit / blame for Pickett's Charge at Gettysbutg RPM 19 hrs ago #3

FDR, Churchill, Eisenhower. Irish_Dem 19 hrs ago #4

Let's be fair and honest. Stalin was no doubt a monster, but he saved his nation. Without the sacrifices of the Russian flashman13 6 hrs ago #7

I seriously debated including Stalin in my list, but he is such a bastard. Irish_Dem 6 hrs ago #9

More accurately, the Soviet people Tommy Carcetti 6 hrs ago #10

Stalin specifically called for the defense of Mother Russia, not the Soviet Union. He demoted the Commissars and flashman13 5 hrs ago #11

My dad credited Russia for the fall of Hitler. ananda 5 hrs ago #12

This message was self-deleted by its author Irish_Dem 6 hrs ago #8