Thanks to these Russian "racists" and "bastards", you are still alive, and not burned in the gas chambers.
Should members of sciforums be required to post in English?
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Isn't there an expression "Do not feed the troll"?
This is like playing chess with a gangrenous pigeon .
Yes, l prefer to play chess with my dog. He almost always loses to me.
TheVat
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Olga brings to our website the rich cultural heritage of one of the world's great civilizations!
It wasn't a complaint about accuracy and certainly not one with respect to using English, or any complaint at all. Just a facetious observation.
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You mean the rhyme? So it's English. And it didn't seem so gteat to me. Shakespeare and Byron are better.
TheVat
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I don't think that's an English rhyme. My guess is that you had a Russian who spoke English well enough to do tutoring, and he made up that rhyme. A British person in Russia would be unlikely to include such a rhyme in their teaching, when in a country from which they could be expelled at any time.
Completely agree Shakespeare and Byron are of better quality.
Of course he was Russian. It's just that he used to live abroad.I don't think that's an English rhyme. My guess is that you had a Russian who spoke English well enough to do tutoring, and he made up that rhyme. A British person in Russia would be unlikely to include such a rhyme in their teaching, when in a country from which they could be expelled at any time.
Completely agree Shakespeare and Byron are of better quality.
There were no gas chambers in the Gulag. But Hitler had them.
Wouldn't that apply equally the other way around, as well?
I'm not a WWII history expert, but I seem to recall hearing something about the British, Americans, Australians, Et al. helping out a little.
Wouldn't it be fair to say "Thanks to these brainless, dumbass, racist, stupid, English, Russophobe bastards, you are still alive, and not burned in the gas chambers"? *
Olga, if you don't agree that this statement is equally valid, please explain why. I'll be waiting...
* Note: Olga has applied all of these descriptors to westerners in the past three days alone - since she switched to English. Wow.
The Americans came to the end of the war to "help" share the victory. Then, when the Russians had already practically broken the back of fascism. And the Europeans were already a decorative breed back then, and surrendered to Hitler almost without a fight. Europe is still alive only because 27 million Russians gave their lives for it. And now this Europe, wich we saved, supports the Bandera Nazis painted with swastikas, instead of putting in place those who revive fascism. And now the reason for this has become clear to me. The fact is that you yourself are mostly fascists and racists. Because only fascists and racists can forbid people from speaking their native language.
Does it seem ironic that we did the same thing to keep Soviet Russia fighting Nazi Germany - plus the Ukrainians who decided that the bunch of lunatics who would let them live as a vassal state were better than the ones who had stolen all their food and let them starve to death - that we're now doing to help the Ukrainians who are being accused of resurrecting the old "twisted cross" fight the armies of a lunatic who wants to resurrect the hammer and sickle ?
As a co-worker of mine often opines - "You can't make this shit up".
Face it - you guys would have thrown in the sponge straight away if we hadn't sent you a bazillion tonnes of Spam so your troops wouldn't have to eat dirt.
Plus, the USA was fighting another war in the Pacific at the same time, and had to build both the army to carry out the D-Day invasion, and all the equipment necessary to stage it at the same time.
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The Soviet Red Army inflicted about 75% of Nazi German Wehrmacht casualties during WW2. It was worth every penny spent on the Lend-Lease program to send Russia weapons, equipment & supplies to keep 'em in the game because the Eastern Front is really what broke Nazi Germany.
Your Lend Leas began to arrive in the USSR only closer to 1944, when we had actually dealt with the Germans. And your losses in this war amounted to about 400 000 people, of which 300 000 fell on Japan. Without the Russians, Europe would have come to an end.
Pinball1970
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Don't forget the weather.
What does the weather have to do with it?
DaveC426913
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Isn't that Russia's modus operandi? Throwing human waves at the enemy? A practice still continued today in the "Ukrainian meat grinder"?
By way of contrast, the Soviet Union's financial contribution was approximately $190 billion, compared to the West's investment of $475 billion, plus China's $200 billion—meaning only 23% came from the Soviet Union (measured in 1945 USD).
Human sacrifice alone does not win wars—it takes everything you have. All the Allies gave everything they had, including the Soviet Union. Including Britain, Canada, the USA, France, China, and the rest—everyone sacrificed everything to stop the evil, each in their own way.
Let's not forget the only reason that Russia entered the war was because Hitler violated his 1939 agreement to divide up Poland and the Baltics with the USSR. Stalin made a pact with the devil, and the devil broke that pact—surprise, surprise.
I take it you would be happier had the war continued on until every Westerner perished along with the Russians? Would you sleep better at night if that were the case? Approximately 27 million Russians died during the conflict—an outrageously grievous figure—but the 25 million deaths from the rest of the Allies is hardly insignificant.*
Your attitude belittles and mocks this sacrifice—so change your "fucking" tune, Olga. Get over the "woe is me" pity party you have going for yourself and pretend to be an adult. You joined an English-speaking forum of your own free will, so grow up and contribute something meaningful—in English. You are acting like a spoiled crybaby, making your esteemed Russian motherland look weak by extension. Is that what you are going for here?
* Includes both military and civilian deaths. See:
The National WWII Museum, "Research: WWII Poll: Statistics"
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Dear, I.C.B. and Foot, M.R.D. (Eds.). "The Oxford Companion to World War II". Oxford University Press.
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