USSR:
-Starts WW2 by invading Poland WITH the nazis. https://t.co/kfgYzcIXO1
-Gets blindsided by obvious nazi betrayal.
-Forces young men into combat with no weapons, they die by the millions because communism incapable of mass production, and devalues human life.
-American steps in with lend lease providing:
$11.3 Billion ($200 Billion Today)
Assets
~400,000 jeeps & trucks
~14,000 airplanes
~8,000 tractors
~13,000 tanks
~350 Locomotives
~1,640 Train Cars
~500,000 tons rails
~1.5 million blankets
~15 million pairs of army boots
~107,000 tons of cotton
~2.7 million tons of petrol products (5.9 Billion Pounds)
~4.5 million tons of food (9.9 Billion Pounds)
~guns
~ammunition
~explosives
~copper
~steel
~aluminum
~medicine
~field radios
~radar tools
~and other items
"The most important things in this war are machines. The United States ... is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines, through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war." - Stalin
-Survives WW2
-Eventually collapses under the cultural weight of blue jeans and Metallica.
Fast forward 80 years:
“Omg communism is the best look. They killed the most nazi” - some “communist” living in America tweeting from a fucking iPhone
@MAXIMUM_ODEN There’s no such thing as a Grumman TBM. A Grumman manufactured Avenger is a TBF. A TBM is a General Motors manufactured Avenger. The old navy system of designating aircraft is clunky and pretty silly and there’s good reasons we stopped using it.
@SoFar9570@Sargon_of_Akkad I don’t understand what argument you’re making but I don’t think it refutes my original statement which was implying that although England is the land of the English, saying the English are native to the British isles isn’t exactly accurate.