Don't forget how Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler

Re:Don't forget how Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler by arethuza on Saturday May 09, 2015 @03:52PM (#9517475)

My father was in the RAF in WW2 - any time any film or TV program talked about the US and the US winning the war he would snort and remind us all of how much of the actual fighting was done by the Soviets.

Their leaders may have been monsters, but that doesn't mean we can't be a bit more generous towards the vast numbers of Soviet citizens who fought and died to defeat the Nazis.

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Re:Don't forget how Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler by icebraining on Saturday May 09, 2015 @04:11PM (#9517535)

Funnily enough, as jingoistic and inadequate as educational tools the most popular FPSs are, I think the first Call of Duty gave me the first glimpse of the importance of the USSR soldiers in defeating the Third Reich - while most of the TV and film media emphasized the UK and USA and the school textbooks were way too "high level", talking more about the meetings than the actual battles.

In the last campaign one plays as Corp. Alexei Voronin and it starts with a vivid exemplification of Order Nº 227 ("Not one step back!") and ends the game with you waving the Victory Banner over the Reichstag.

I've read and heard actual historical works as I got older, and it only increased my respect for IW.

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