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Re:Russia's economy has entered the death zone by wiseowise on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @03:34PM (#47052925)
> World War 2 was not won due to the economy.

It was literally won due to the economy. The moment Germans failed to knock out Soviets and Japanese pulled Americans into the fight their days were numbered due to insane industrial base of the both countries. Soviet meat waves, industry + lend lease won Europe and US finished Japanese.

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Re:Russia's economy has entered the death zone by torginus on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @03:51PM (#47053144)
> meat waves

sigh

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Re:Russia's economy has entered the death zone by benterix on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @09:51AM (#47061560)
>> meat waves

> sigh

I agree it's an unfortunate way of presenting it but Stalin was a guy who didn't care for anyone's life and was literally sending people in waves to die with the NKVD sadists shooting scared young boys whenever they tried to run away from the horror of war. Dead if you go, dead if you don't. It's romanticized an celebrated today, but it was a mass tragedy incomparable to one that happened to ny other country in recent history.

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