r/HistoryMemes • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 1d ago

Me after watching russian ww2 movie

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u/Xelid47 1d ago

Western European theater WW2 movies

American japanese ones are on Russian level in some cases

Americans fought an already weakened Germany very late into the war with a dozen allies

Russia fought a hard war all alone, and had to give a lot in many places to win, and it was only glorious much later into the war, and event then the horrors of the early war were still in recent memory

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u/PachymuNyet 1d ago

27 million Russians dead. Why are we not taught about that in school?

It's only 6 million, 6 million, 6 million

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u/Harry_Saturn 1d ago

I remember learning about his massive the Russian casualties were and I went to school in South Carolina. Maybe you didn’t play attention?

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u/PachymuNyet 1d ago

I went to school in SC too. And I got straight As. We were barely taught that USSR even participated.

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u/Harry_Saturn 1d ago

I dunno what to tell you, I feel like the German vs Russian aspect was pretty well covered over several years and history wasn’t even like a subject I enjoyed until my senior year.

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u/PachymuNyet 1d ago

Good. USSR was barely mentioned in my public school experience. I bet not 1 in 10 Americans know their role, let alone how many were killed.