aferg
@aferg.eth
Don’t think the Russian revisionist pomp about victory over the Nazis in WW2 is fooling anyone, considering they started it in an alliance with the them to begin with - then illegally annexed and occupied most of Eastern Europe for decades afterwards.
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Purp🇵🇸
@purp
Wut? The soviet union litterally captured Berlin, lmfao every historian puts the weight of the allies victory on the soviet union, this is max level revisionism
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Purp🇵🇸
@purp
Ifop poll of French citizens from 1945 for example
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
This chart really encapsulates the power of American soft power — i.e., how Hollywood had managed to equate “heroic U.S. D-day landing and liberating France” with “crushing Germany on its own soil” in the minds of later generations (Far from me to take any credit away from the US and Allied efforts on D-day and after; merely pointing out the likely source of that cognitive shift about the importance of the Eastern front)
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azb
@azbest
This might actually be one of those rare cases where reality prevailed over Hollywood stories. The decision to outlaw the French Communist Party in 1939 wasn’t that obvious at the time, and the significance of the communist anti-Nazi resistance improved their public perception. By 1994, however, the true nature of Soviet 'liberation' had become rather clear.
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Purp🇵🇸
@purp
O yeah pre trump our soft power was second to none
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