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The difference is that the Americans rolled out a red carpet for the Nazis and offered employment contracts. The Soviets showed up one night and kidnapped nearly 7000 nazis at gunpoint, and then forced them to work to pay reparations. Based.
When the Allies reclaimed Nordhausen it was the anticommunists, not the Soviets, who ended up with the larger share of the scientific materials.
The remaining Axis scientists that the Soviets did capture still had to live in unglamorous conditions: on some projects the Soviet authorities limited the rôle of the Axis specialists merely to consultation and practical training.
Finally, three anticommunist rocket experts confirmed that by 1952 the U.S.S.R. had sent most of these Axis scientists back home, and that the Soviets (obviously) made major strides on their own.
They also committed mass rapes
The frogurt contains potassium cyanide.
They also claimed 7 out of every 10 Nazis killed in WWII, and by all accounts at the time, contributed the most to winning the war.
Absolutely...while kidnapping, raping, and murdering children. There was a reason Germans wanted the west troops to march in as opposed to the soviets.
Wouldn't that count as slave labour?
Not according to the Allies at the Yalta conference.
By the late 1940s, the only people claiming that the labor enjoyed by the Soviets at the hands of captured Nazis was "slavery" - were Nazis.
By all allied accounts, using German labor to pay reparations was deemed acceptable given how the Soviets had just sacrificed 27 million people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_of_Germans_after_World_War_II
Two wrongs don't make a right.
The Treaty of Versailles was really unfair to the German people but that didn't justify anything the Nazis did. The terrible things the Nazis did also didn't justify the terrible things the Soviets did.
Forced labour hmm. I mean it definitely sounds like slave labour, just lawful form of it. The article does have a quote:
Yes but you see when the Communists do it it's "based". /s
Always check which instance someone is using. If it's lemmy.ml it's people who worship Soviet Russia and China