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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussian soldiers celebrate birthday of 'comrade and friend' Hitler
In a post yesterday on Govorit TopaZ, a pro-Kremlin Telegram channel with almost 70,000 subscribers, the soldiers talked about how they had been inspired by Nazi ethno-nationalist ideology.
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Even though he has not been with us for a long time, his work and his words live on in our hearts and inspire us to kill Ukro-Bolshevik dirt and magnify the glory of great Russia.
Hitler was born on April 20, 1889.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russian-soldiers-celebrate-birthday-of-comrade-and-friend-hitler-lpvm56xz0#
iemanja
(53,029 posts)They forgot who they fought in WWII.
Raine
(30,540 posts)pretty obvious who the real Nazis are!
Deuxcents
(16,173 posts)They invaded to rid the Ukraines who were Nazi... their soldiers seem to have no idea..
sprinkleeninow
(20,235 posts)Ocelot II
(115,669 posts)as a direct result of Hitler in WWII.
Walleye
(31,007 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,447 posts)Sadly, Russian has lost most of their generation that dealt with Stalin and WW2. Pathetic.
Crunchy Frog
(26,579 posts)as completely expendable, and are simply thrown at the enemy en masse. They also treated their own POWs as traitors, so had no agreements with the Germans for humane treatment, and shipped the survivors straight to Siberia, where many more died.
When you have no regard for the value of human life, it pretty much guarantees huge losses. They even managed to lose around 200,000 soldiers in a few months of war with Finland.
The losses were from a combination of both Hitler and Stalin, though I know that goes against their official narrative.