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| Topic | Why do people only know Holocaust but not the more deadly Holodomor? |
| Pogo_Marimo 01/27/21 3:16:19 PM #29: | Comparatively few people know about the Holodomor and even fewer know about Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Your average person knows next to nothing about WWII except The French Surrendered, Holocaust, Hitler, Stalin, The Bombs, Good Guys and Bad Guys, Communism, Pearl Harbor, Fascists, Tanks and Planes. If you talk with a bunch of nerds only, they'll probably know a bit more since video games encourage some small amounts of historical literacy. And no, Germany and Russia were not "allied" together. The Pact was a non-interventionalist pact that outlined new borders, and the closest thing they ever did to actually support each other militarily was some pre-war cooperative tank development in the early 1930s, and some mutually beneficial trade in 1940. Germany came much closer to an alliance with China before the war than with the Soviet Union. --- 'Cause you know that I have no fear, ain't gonna walk into the river and disappear. I'm gonna be a powerful man. Red blood running down the broken sand. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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