Almost every time WW2 was mentioned in my schooling they would always hand waive the topic of The Soviet Union whenever the questionable nature of the allies association with them is brought up. This is obvious to even teenagers but they are propagandized to relentlessly their whole life to accept the absurdity of the situation on it's face.

Now that I know this, it seems insane to leave it out, from the perspective of someone pushing a narrative. I mean, as soon as I learned this, I began to doubt everything else. The thing is, I believed this version of history for an embarrassingly long period of time. So it's maybe not quite as reckless a lie as it seemed, given that it took me thirty years to think "Hang on..." Sorry for rambling.

@filled_soda crazy shit, good on you for seeing the importance of this. Took me a long time to get as well. Sucks to be mislead by Marxist curriculum our whole lives

I mean, pragmatically speaking it would have been utterly insane and impossible for Britain and France to be at war with both Germany and Russia. They picked the one that they saw as most dangerous to their strategic interests. But I completely agree it shows a huge degree of hypocrisy. And ofc we all know who the allies were in bed with….

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Good comment, Canadian troops were amongst the best in ww1. Although the Germans and Russians also contributed much to the development of infantry tactics. The Russians and French cross trained and shared ideas, the Germans too developed their own and everyone copied each other. In the Brusilov offensive the Russian assault tactics worked well, the allies learned from these and employed them in 1917. They would launch an accurate artillery bombardment for a shorter duration, then the defenders would emerge and take up their positions, the Russians rather than attack, would wait a few mins, and then launch another bombardment. They’d repeat this process for several hours all the while small flexible units of Russian troops armed with many grenades would advance from cover to cover, upon the finish of the last bombardment the Russians would be right outside the Austrian tranche, then they’d storm in and usually caught the enemy on their way up from the bunkers, they took many prisoners by placing machine guns at the top of the stairs and forcing large groups of men to surrender or they’d throw grenades down. The tactic didn’t work so well with defence in-depth and often the central power troops would just evacuate their own positions, then shell them once the Russians were occupying them. They’d also launch counter attacks into the flank of the assault parties. I think the most effective assault troops were the German Stoßtrüp in 1918. The speed of advance was not matched even in the final allied counter offensive, but Germany had poor logistics and on the grand strategic scale they couldn’t match the industry of the REST OF THE WORLD POWERS!!

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Scott Greer's Highly Respected "Ride Johnny Ride" episode is probably what you're looking for. It's on KZfaq.

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