Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Reaction to The Soviet Charge - Enemy at the Gates (2001) | is it historically accurate?" video.

It's about showing how terrible, bad and dumb and disgusting the soviets are - it's propaganda. They love to paint this picture. See: 2. WW never ended. USA simply took the leadership and continue it with the same goal, calling it "Cold War", now. Of course weapons had changed, so it did not work like that anymore. Without nukes, we would have had a 3rd, 4th and 5th WW alreaday if needed for our west stealing Russia's resources. And if you want to wager war, the first thing you do is painting the enemy as dumb and evil.
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It's not misconception - it's propaganda. Overall in the west the picture painted of the Soviet Union is more and more in line with it being just as bad if not worse than the 3. Reich and we slowly reach the line in which Hitler becomes the defender against the evil Russian Empire. It's not an error - it's on purpose. No one is that dumb to spread this awful 'misconcept' by mistake. They especially love to show that soviet soldier were shot in the back, that's one of the stories they like to tell the most, that the evil SU send its people to certain death and just shoot everyone who tried to flee. That this war was against an enemy with the plan of total annihilation who had already mass murdered million CIVILIANS(!) - nah, that's not so important. Give it some years and they will tell, that it was Stalin who just killed those ~27 million by being an "evil Russian" (even though he's Georgian...).
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