Originally Posted by
hakujinbakasama
Yes and no. I agree with you in a certain way because it is correct to an extent. The fact being that there are many choices and decisions made which allowed it to become a "world war." To be fair, it's unlikely the USA would have been involved if the Japanese didn't make a dumb choice.
As far as Russian casualties go, I have a special position of looking at Russia for that one... not that the USA is innocent in that slaughter either. That being said, the Germans invaded into Russian controlled lands. Yup, that fucking happened. But that's generally not what gives them the "horrific" moniker. It was what they did to the Jews which generally comes up as the appalling and evil aspect. As an American and being slightly silly about things at times, it seems dumb to be all "omg look at what the Germans did to the Russians!" when we spent the next 40 years trying to destroy them both emotionally, physically, economically, and literally following the War. Hell, pre WW2 anti communism sentiments were damn high here already.
Beyond all of that, Stalin did a damn good job killing his own people prior, during, and post the war.
Also, I'm not trying to make an apples to apples comparison. I've kinda gone on record advocating against that time and time again. I've simply stated "people suck, most of the sides suck, dirty shit was done" and that I don't subscribe to the universal condemnation of the Nazi's on a pedestal above everyone else. Nazi's were bad, Commies were bad, Japanese were bad, the US did some shit things... IBM and Coke can suck a dick... ect ect.
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Oh good, so you agree with shit I've already said and I wasn't deflecting at all! I'm glad you realized you were wrong.