If you ask me who lost World War II, my answer is The Soviet Union. Yes, they did wind up with huge parcels of land and got to hoist the Hammer and Sickle over the Reichstag, but it was at a cost.
There were more than 50 countries involved in the conflict. If you took all of them: Axis and Allied with the exception of the Soviet Union and added up their casualties they still fall short of the casualties sustained by the Soviet Union alone. In other words, the U.S.S.R. lost more people than all the other countries combined. When your country has more that half the total casualties in a war, I call that losing.
Also from 1941 to late 1944, the war was fought on Soviet territory. There is such a thing as the home field advantage during a war, but you don’t want to have it.
Because of this, paranoia has dictated Russian politics ever since. It’s relatively easy to convince the populace that the fascists are out to get them again.
FreyjaRN Premium Member over 1 year ago
God is an iron.
If a felon commits a felony…
dflak over 1 year ago
The Russians call it “The Great Patriotic War.”
If you ask me who lost World War II, my answer is The Soviet Union. Yes, they did wind up with huge parcels of land and got to hoist the Hammer and Sickle over the Reichstag, but it was at a cost.
There were more than 50 countries involved in the conflict. If you took all of them: Axis and Allied with the exception of the Soviet Union and added up their casualties they still fall short of the casualties sustained by the Soviet Union alone. In other words, the U.S.S.R. lost more people than all the other countries combined. When your country has more that half the total casualties in a war, I call that losing.
Also from 1941 to late 1944, the war was fought on Soviet territory. There is such a thing as the home field advantage during a war, but you don’t want to have it.
Because of this, paranoia has dictated Russian politics ever since. It’s relatively easy to convince the populace that the fascists are out to get them again.
VegaAlopex over 1 year ago
Leo just breached the “fourth wall”, and it’s appropriate.
ladykat over 1 year ago
Unfortunately, we do live in the real world.
walstib Premium Member over 1 year ago
Recently I’ve thought this comic was getting cloyingly sweet, but not today.
braindead Premium Member over 1 year ago
Republicans admire Putin and believe he is a Savvy Genius.
Because he invaded Ukraine.
“He’s getting a whole country for two dollars.” — the other genius, the Stable one.
dflak over 1 year ago
If I could draw a political cartoon it would be of Marshal Zhukov with a map of Ukraine. The caption would read, “WTF?”
buflogal! over 1 year ago
Putin’s attitude is that of a spoiled little child: If I can’t have than I will destroy it so no one can have it!