This may upset some DUers but after Iraq it's hard to watch the same hacks talking

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245. I seem to remember that thee then Soviet Union switched sides and joined the allies in WW2

Perhaps you know a different history.

And then there was this
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-liberate-auschwitz
On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally revealing to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.

Auschwitz was really a group of camps, designated I, II, and III. There were also 40 smaller “satellite” camps. It was at Auschwitz II, at Birkenau, established in October 1941, that the SS created a complex, monstrously orchestrated killing ground: 300 prison barracks; four “bathhouses” in which prisoners were gassed; corpse cellars; and cremating ovens. Thousands of prisoners were also used for medical experiments overseen and performed by the camp doctor, Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death.”