Can someone please recommend me some reading or watching that isn’t entirely infused with cold war rancor towards the USSR?

  • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    I had an idea for a movie the other day. A parody of how Americans view their actions in WWII, and how that view of the war has infected other nations through movies.

    All the historic allied eccentrics (Jack Churchill, Digby Tatham-Warter, Audie Murphy, e.t.c) get put together on a supertroop tasked with killing higher-ups in the Nazi regime. As a recurring gag, whenever there needs to be bodies between the protagonists and certain doom, its The Soviets.

    • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      These guys also make great weekly videos about WW2, “in real time”

      They’re unabashed anticommunist shitlibs, though (especially Spartacus), to the point where they unironically cite Robert Conquest as a source. I remember someone pointing out how hypocritical (and borderline Nazi-enabling) their condemnation of the Soviet Union was, only for the channel account to go on a tirade about muh human rights 100 gillion dead and ban the “extremist”. I will give it to them that they don’t make claims like the Soviets were just as bad or killed more than the Nazis, but that’s because the bar for lib pop historians is abyssal.

      That said, yeah, their format for covering the war is great if you’re willing to mentally block out the usual shitlibbery.

    • bluescreen [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      British and French were ready to pre-emptively invade Norway. Had troops right off the coast ready to disembark. Germans beat them to the mark by a day or two. They then smoothly switched gears to an “intervention” and the corporate media covered for them.

    • DoubleShot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      In WW2 the British kinda/sorta invaded Iceland against their will. Ostensibly to “secure” Iceland from falling to the Nazis but the Icelanders weren’t really given a choice in the matter IIRC.

    • Wordplay [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      Another good one is this counterpunch piece which describes the Soviet rationale around the build up towards the Nazi invasion of the USSR, the millions of Polish lives saved from occupying eastern Poland, and also the wholly justified Winter War up in Finland.

      It’s funny how weak the propaganda coming out of the west is and has been for the last fifty years. Oh, leader x’s actions don’t seem rational? That’s because they’re insane, not because we’re lying to you as if you were children.