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https://www.politico.eu/article/fight-against-ussr-nazi-waffen-ss-trooper-yaroslav-hunka-world-war-ii-soviet-union-germany/

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[–] mrsemi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

there's a pretty big gulf between the USSR and Nazi fucking Germany

You're right.

Stalin alone has a higher body count than all of Nazi Germany, and the USSR went trucking along murdering people for almost six times as long as Nazi Germany existed.