• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    When I cleared out my grandma’s attic there were her ww2 correspondence letters with soldiers on the front.

    I was not prepared for the amount of american soldiers writing about how wonderful Hitler was and we shouldn’t be at war in Europe because the real enemy were the Reds.

    “Heil Hitler and Fuck the Reds!” is a line from one.

    It really put the inevitability of the Cold War into perspective.

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      9 months ago

      America joined the war in Europe to prevent the Soviet Union from spreading communism.

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        9 months ago

        Pearl Harbor may have also been a factor, but there is definitely something to that.

        America was hoping to grind them both to dust with each other. And largely that was successful. The Eastern Front was a hellscape of death.

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          9 months ago

          Pearl Harbor was a Japanese response to the American blockade and shipping operations in the pacific during the war.

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            9 months ago

            The tonnage war certainly started well before that. Lend Lease act to the USSR was in place for nearly a year beforehand even.