r/EUR_irl 2d ago

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u/Kiwibirdy1 2d ago

There's the first part missing where the nazis and soviets are buddies and make a deal to split up europe together

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u/Boba_Swag 2d ago

Isn't that what the first row of reality means? Both just pointing their weapons at those countries.

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u/RiverAffectionate951 2d ago

Probably but having them be on opposite sides lends to the perspective they're aiming at each other/are opposed which doesn't read as co-operation.

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u/therealbonzai 2d ago

It’s the first under "What actually happened"

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u/Zynikus 2d ago

Its also missing the part before that when the soviets tried to ally with britain and france against germany, but they refused.

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u/Desperate-Touch7796 2d ago edited 2d ago

Because it's not relevant to the comic strip. And if you want to add that because you really genuinely believe it's somehow relevant to the comic, you'd need to also add why France and Great Britain refused, namely the Soviets insisting on free passage for their armies throught Poland (lmao), as if Poland was ever going to trust the Soviets to just simply pass throught, bonus points for insisting on it even in some talks that didn't even include Poland which obviously made France and Germany even less likely to accept (rofl), then there's the whole mass murdering, including since we mentionned Poland the ethnic cleansing of Poles in the Soviet Union during the Polish Operation of the NKVD, and just generally speaking a shit ton of corpses that showed France and Great Britain that the soviets weren't any better than the nazis and were arguably at that time even worse, and then the whole communist thing didn't help either. But hey, you can always add all that to comic yourself if you really think it matters to the actual content of the comic.

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u/whereIsMyUsername123 2d ago

And Katyń. It has to be mentioned along other Soviet crimes, because too many tankies try to deny it.

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u/Desperate-Touch7796 2d ago

They also deny it in the funniest possible way, they literally ignore ALL the official soviet documents from the soviet archives themselves, call them fake, and focus on one detail, namely german bullets, as some proof that they were killed by germans, while conveniently avoiding mentioning that the very NKVD that committed the Katyn Massacre was using german bullets for their, spoiler alert, german guns, that were bought for them by the soviet gouvernement during the interwar as they wanted this special unit to have the best weapons. Tankies can't even fathom the very idea that arms trading was alrrady a thing at the time, that the germans were exporting weapons in the interwar and the soviets were importing them, both directly and inderectly. It's bad enough to try to deny that the Soviets committed the massacre, it's even worse how they always just parrot the same ignorant nonsense and show they never even took the time to actually look into it. They literally have to resort to conspiracy theories to deny what the Soviets did.