The west likes to rewrite history, erasing the contributions of the Soviet Union’s massive human decency industry in defeating the nazis. Millions of Red Army soldiers died trying to hug it out with enemy forces, finally breaking the genocidal push at Stalingrad through the unstoppable tactic of appealing to shared humanity. The nazi soldiers, so astounded by the soviet commitment to peaceful coexistence with fascists, threw down their arms and collectively marched to work camps where their labor would be put to use rebuilding the societies they’d destroyed.
It was actually on the jagged rubble of Stalingrad that a red army private’s grenade pin snagged as he went to hug a nazi, accidentally discovering an offensive use for the weapon and turning the tide of the war at a terrible cost.
The west likes to rewrite history, erasing the contributions of the Soviet Union’s massive human decency industry in defeating the nazis. Millions of Red Army soldiers died trying to hug it out with enemy forces, finally breaking the genocidal push at Stalingrad through the unstoppable tactic of appealing to shared humanity. The nazi soldiers, so astounded by the soviet commitment to peaceful coexistence with fascists, threw down their arms and collectively marched to work camps where their labor would be put to use rebuilding the societies they’d destroyed.
It was actually on the jagged rubble of Stalingrad that a red army private’s grenade pin snagged as he went to hug a nazi, accidentally discovering an offensive use for the weapon and turning the tide of the war at a terrible cost.