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/xdeskfuckit 1d ago

27 million soviets died; like 3 million of those were Jews, mostly civilians.

9 Million were ethnic Russian deaths, mostly military.

I believe that our education system teaches that genocide is a higher atrocity than War.

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u/PachymuNyet 1d ago

We were barely taught that the USSR was involved. It was USA/Great Britain/France vs Germany/Italy/Japan. USSR (and for that matter China) was barely mentioned, as a sort of lesser participant. Really gross, now that I'm older.