Comments by "chaosXpert" (@chaosXP3RT) on "Russian forces have 24 hours to capture Bakhmut | Kadyrov is back! | Ukraine Update" video.
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@youareliedtobythemedia When I wave the flag of my favorite sports team, I'm not only cheering for them, but showing my pride in them and their accomplishments. Why would someone cheer for the Soviets and be proud of what they did in Eastern and Central Europe?
For nearly 50 years they occupied much of Europe with an oppressive regime that often deported and killed people. It's difficult to even call the Soviet war against Germany a "liberation". Thanks to the Soviet-German Commerical Pacts of 1939, 1940 and 1941, the Soviet Union supplied N*zi Germany with 820,000 metric tons of oil, 1,500,000 metric tons of grain and 130,000 metric tons of manganese ore, while N*zi Germany was at war with Poland, Belgium, France, Denmark, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece and the UK. In 1939, the Soviet Union annexed half of Poland, under the pretext of "protecting people from anarchy when the Polish government collapsed". They then would murder over 22,000 Polish Army officers and government officials in the Katyn Massacre.
The USSR was hardly an ally in WWII, but more of an opportunist. What ideals they defended or which people they liberated, I'm not certain. For many people, including me, the USSR was not a nation whose deeds were something to cheer for or take pride in. That's why their flag should not be waved and why it's different from a sport's team.
"Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other side of the line, the Soviet forces also face east to prevent their people from leaving." - Ronald Reagan
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