These are tricky times for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The “special military operation” he launched against Ukraine in 2022, intended to last a few days until a puppet regime in Kyiv could be installed, has now gone on longer than both the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany and all of World War I. His forces have long ceased making significant gains on the battlefield; some data even suggest that Russian forces lost territory in April and May. What gains the Russians have made have come at enormous cost: Last month, Anna Keast-Butler, the director of British intelligence agency GCHQ, cited new intelligence indicating that Russian war deaths had likely reached almost half a million; various Western sources put total Russian casualties at significantly more than 1 million.
Soviets fought Nazis in WWI?
News to me.
Two separate things. That sentence was totally unambiguous to me.
Bro failed the history exam.Edit: oh my god
While it sounds a bit awkward, I expect that the "Soviet fight against Nazi Germany " roughly-approximates to “The Great Patriotic War”.
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They were being overly pedantic about a sentence in the article in the article that I found intelligible imo, but read their comment more carefully. WWI is the first world war, the one before the Nazis came on scene.
I guess you could read it that way. Unfortunately, emotion and speaking mannerisms don’t translate through text. Which is why Poe’s law exists. I read the comment at face value.
Fair point. I guess I’m just too used to people generalizing and overusing the term “Nazi”. My mind just took their meaning as “I didn’t know the Soviets fought the Germans”. And I’ve met people who didn’t know that fact, so it’s not a stretch.
Maybe enjoy some education and history lessons specific.