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Can't believe the West is repeating the WW2 propaganda nonsense similar to what the Nazis used

The mainstream Western perception of WW2 on Eastern Front is essentially distilled Nazi propaganda that was consciously pushed once WW2 slid into the Cold War, and the Soviets became the designated enemy. Every time the Eastern Front came up in casual conversation I would hear the smugest takes like "How the Russians won? Oh, they just waited for winter to save them and got lucky", "Russians can't fight, they just zerg rush and overwhelm you with bodies", "They were saved by Lend-Lease so basically America won the Eastern Front". When people grow up on a twisted fanfictionization of history where the Red Army was huge incompetent mass of untrained Asiatic conscripts who have to share one rifle between two people and only won because the Germans ran out of bullets to shoot at the horde and were eventually overwhelmed, they will believe all the bullshit "Superior British tanks will epically own Putin's orcs" articles and parrot them. Goebbles is laughing from the depths of hell.

X4 is one of those games that have been on my radar for a long while, but I never got around to playing it. Janky space Morrowind sells it for me. Anything I should know before buying?

Minor axis countries are such a can of brainworms. I've seen this conversation too many times to count and can tell exactly how it goes:

My grandpa was taken prisoner by the soviets and when they released him he had to walk thousands of km to get back home, he returned in 1947 😭 😭 😭

*Interesting, what was your grandpa doing so far away from home in the first place anyway? *

The fact that they would rather believe this community is on a several years long маскировка op merely pretending to be leftist rather than engage in a minimal effort at self-reflection is mind-boggling. I understand that we are dealing with the most propagandized population to have ever walked the Earth, but it's still stunning to actually encounter the phenomenon in real time instead of just reading up on the abstract concept.

🤓 ackshually the Forgotten Realms setting as imagined by its creator is very horny and very gay, smh I thought gamers wanted accurate representation of the source material

I live in one of the deeply unserious European countries where double genocide is essentially our mainstream WW2 narrative. I was an adult when I found out that I've been literally taught a nazi distortion of the Holocaust in middle school and high school. I had to do my own research to realize the scope of my country's participation in the Holocaust, which was relegated to footnotes in history textbooks and glossed over by my teachers. You can bet that the Ribbentop-Molotov pact was repeatedly hammered into us as this vile alliance between equally evil empires, though.

I beg any liberals who might be reading this thread in genuine good faith: read the article linked further up and do your best to at least consider the perspective it presents.

You are taking pride in the thought of fighting to the death against your own interests while parroting a line that was making fun of the sentiment you are expressing.

Solidarity, comrade. That sounds absolutely hellish and hits way too close to home as someone who is struggling with feeling increasingly unsafe in their own country and has seriously discussed the possibility of moving away in the coming years.

I used to watch a lot of shitty WW2 documentaries as a kid and I vividly remember at least one doing the full "fanatically suicidal Japanese bugmen were all ready to fight to the death and it would cost 500.000+ casualties to invade them and force them to surrender so the bombs were necessary to save lives" bit.