My history book says the Soviet regime committed numerous ethnic cleansing, genocides, etc.

Anyway, that wouldn't keep me from wearing a watch made there. A watch isn't a symbol of political alignment and I don't believe they can be haunted or anything.

Whatever you might think of the Soviet Union, equating it to Nazi Germany is a grotesque under appreciation of evil that was the Nazi Germany and its allies, as well as the key role which Soviet Union and its people played in defeating this evil that wanted to de jure enslave the whole world.

Tankies and neonazis all think they're better than the other, but they're both simping for murderous authoritarianism. They're ""opposite"" ideologies but two sides of the same coin. Two wings on the same bird.

I give the Soviet Union as much credit for fighting the Nazis as I give the Nazis for fighting the Soviet Union: None. The great tragedy in the way that war ended was the demise of only one of the two rather than both. Do you expect the world to forget the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? The difference between the Nazis and the Soviets, if any, was a marginal one of initiative. And do you expect the world to forget that the Soviets kept Poland and more under military occupation for decades after the Nazi threat was eradicated? To paint the Soviets as heroes is grotesque.

The Nazi government officially wanted to exterminate a whole people and enslave the majority of the world for benefit of the few. Only someone not on the receiving end of such a treatment can say something that stupid. The Soviet Union was established on the premise of ending imperialist wars and bringing about equality.

> To paint the Soviets as heroes is grotesque

The Soviet people who fought the Nazis and liberated half of Europe were definitely heroes. There is no mistaking it