The desperation to have Stalin be remembered as more evil than Hitler is insane. “That guy who beat the Nazis? Nazi collaborator. Even did his own holocaust smug”
“Silly tankie. It was the US who beat the Nazis. All the soviets knew how to do is charge nazi positions in human waves. The only reason they had any success at all is because of lend lease.”
Yesterday I watched a friend play Call of Duty: WWII, and it looked a hell of a lot like the Western Allies were using the ‘human wave’ tactic on Omaha Beach.
the opening of saving of private ryan is us army charging frontally machine gun bunker nests without cover or any kind of support.
my guess is that the message they try to convey is that brave soldiers valiantly marched to death to protect freedom or whatever. but end up contradicting themselves.
🤔 Does taking well manned static defenses require a large force in a maneuver that likely will result in high casualties?
No, must be the Asiatics with their lack of value for human life.
The battle was also nothing like how it was portrayed in the media.
Neither was Stalingrad like it was portrayed in Enemy at the Gates.
That’s arguably much worse.
I was anticipating that objection. My counterargument would be that the designers likely tried to make it historically accurate (you know how much gamers clamour for ‘realism’), but I have no proof.
The vast majority of FPS’s aren’t historically accurate because it would make the game incredibly boring. So it’s more artistic liberty if anything.
The outlier being games like ARMA, which alternate between boring and terrifying
True, but ARMA isn’t really a traditional FPS, as its a MilSim of a fictional conflict. That’s a bit easier to make work if you want to show the horrors of war.
Zhukov in shambles
It takes no courage to repeat a mantra that the neoliberal establishment has already been regurgitating for decades. Why not say something that’s more original and educational, like declaring Józef Piłsudski, Józef Beck, Konstantin Päts, Kārlis Ulmanis, Paul‐Boncour, Ramsay MacDonald, Neville Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier, Dr. Rudolf Kastner, Şükrü Saracoğlu & alii to be Fascist collaborators? I mean, who can honestly say that Western schools regularly teach their students these names while consistently neglecting to mention the German–Soviet Pact of 1939?
What nazis planned, soviets executed - only faster.
The Soviets cleared their own land to make way for Germanic settlers?
Wernher von Braun
https://books.google.com/books?id=R3qdAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT37
Von Braun insisted throughout this minor ordeal that his appointment as an SS Sturmbannführer in 1937 had been purely honorary and without political significance. Yet von Braun, like Dornberger, had every opportunity to know what was happening at Nordhausen. Still, he continued to work industriously on behalf of the Reich until its final collapse.
He tinkered away on the missiles’ design, adding special insulation to prevent the machines from blowing up in flight, then improving the guidance system so that a greater percentage of the V‐2’s high‐explosive warheads succeeded in hitting London. Like Dornberger, von Braun pushed for increased production from the [neo]slaves at Nordhausen.
After the war, of course, von Braun asserted that he had been opposed to [Fascism] all along. His real reason for working in the [Fascist] missile program, he said, had been the potential usefulness of his machines in “space travel.”
Even if the monuments were not put up because of their Nazi collaboration, why would you want a monument to someone who did anyway? Like, that’s a pretty big stain on any legacy they could’ve had. You can “recognize” a portion of their life with other means, monuments celebrate more than they educate, let’s be so fucking for real right now.
