Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

I’d root for the Soviet Union over the Flyers literally any day, because the Flyers are simply a dirty hockey team. They do not play to win, they play to injure the other team.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Soviet Union: Literally Beat THE Nazis in World War II The Flyers: fucking dog ass hockey team too busy playing like assholes to actually even win games Yeah, I know who I’m rooting for

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

The Flyers might be Bastards but they are our Bastards. I’m glad they beat up the Soviets

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Anonymous canesfan 2w

Idk man, a lot of what I’ve learned in my studies of international relations has told me the Soviets were actually pretty cool as far as hegemonic world powers go, even when the professor has tried to teach the opposite.

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Anonymous canesfan 2w

Like I got taught a course in Weapons of Mass Destruction, and when we talked about the potential of smallpox as a bio-weapon, we had to talk about how a Soviet dude had the idea at the UN to eradicate smallpox as the big post-WWII triumph of international collaboration, and that’s cool as fuck and still prolly what I consider humanity’s greatest achievement. So shout out.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Well eradicating smallpox is good but the Soviets really alienated the western powers when they dissolved democracy in Eastern Europe, and then sent in troops when those countries strayed to far After that point the spirit of cooperation took a big hit

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Anonymous canesfan 2w

Yeah that was definitely not great, but also not any worse than what America was up to when any country in Latin America elected a leader who was too leftist

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

They chose the cleanest check of the match to flop. After the Soviets returned to the ice, they were simply just outmatched for the rest of the game. Also, this was 1976, it wasn’t the Soviet Union that beat the Nazis. It was the scraps of the undesirable bits that even the meat grinder didn’t want. Also, ignoring the US beating Japan with only the Navy and Philly’s sheer importance in WWII (both pre and post-US involvement)

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Anonymous OP 2w

My bad not even the Navy, literally just Marines lmao

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Anonymous OP 2w

The Soviets did in fact beat the Nazis, 75% of the gains in land against Nazi Germany were made by the Soviets, Nazi casualty numbers are about the same. It’s the Soviets who got to Berlin. The war in Europe was over after Stalingrad, Germany just didn’t know it yet. D-Day shortened the war in Europe by 2 years tops. America did beat Japan though #beastmode

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

But a lot of this is in response to the aforementioned Soviet antics (though not a very wise or justified response). Like for Example the Soviets also backed the North Koreans to refuse a Korean unification vote and then invade the South

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Anonymous canesfan 2w

Yeah man Cold War politics was fuckin stupid on both sides of the Iron Curtain

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Anonymous canesfan 2w

That’s exactly like how America backed an unpopular fascist dictatorship in South Vietnam, refusing unification with the popular leader of the independence movement that had freed them from France, and then acted all surprised when there was a combination Northern invasion & Southern insurgency

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

They pulled their weight and pushed back an entire front in the western theater, but the other allies (primarily American) pushed the Nazis out of Northern Africa, landed in and liberated France, took Italy, and won the battle of the bulge. It’s like saying crediting Enola Gay as the reason the Japanese surrendered while leaving out the island hopping campaign

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

America and France be like: “Ok who can we get that won’t just unite the country under Ho Chi Minh? How about Christian fundamentalists who will repress the majority religion and undergo a billion coup d’états? Yeah for sure nothing could go wrong there.”

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