• oregoncom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    For what the Red Army did for the world and considering what ghe Nazis did to the Soviet people, every Soviet soldier should’ve had at least 30 watches strapped on them. They should’ve been wearing those watches like a Digimon. Every German should be legally mandated to mail a watch to the descendent of a Red Army soldier every year.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Someone is posting gore pictures in that thread, proceed with extreme caution. Like reall bad shit. I’ll tell yo the context here so you don’t have to go to the thread

    Some Fash is alleging the flag picture was cropped and darkened bc one oft the Soviet soldiers had a “watch” on each wrist, proving that they were the badguys because they must have stolen the watch from a Nazi, which would be bad. This proves that communism doesn’t work and the poor oppressed Germans were something something something fash noises.

    The reply point out how fucking stupid that is.

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      9 months ago

      Famously, soldiers have no use for time pieces, and keeping accurate time for strategies or anything especially back then in the analogue age.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        9 months ago

        Word. Afaik having an accurate time piece, at least for NCOs and officers, was literally life or death since they needed them to do any kind of coordination at a time when radios sucked or were rare and precious, or just couldn’t keep up with an advance.

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        9 months ago

        Afaik, in “Looting is against the laws of war” terms, stealing weapons and war materiel probably isn’t the same thing as taking personal effects from corpses, or durable goods from homes.

  • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    It might be a fun bit to do the due process concern trolling that liberals love to apply to everything from zionist war crimes to to victims of sexual harassment breaking the silence:

    “What proof do you that the watch was actually stolen? You can’t just go around accusing random people for theft without being able too back up your accusations. We live in a society governed by laws. For all we know he could have bought and paid for both watches.”

  • principalkohoutek [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    I remember my fucking apush teacher pointing out the two watches circa 2004. Band of Brothers has a whole plotline about bringing home a Luger for your brother, but reappropriating a watch is verboten

  • TraumaDumpling@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    fash can gas millions of civillians and massacre every slav they see on the way to get their asses kicked by the russians at stalingrad and its ‘just defending their country and way of life bro’, but allegedly taking one (1) watch from the guys that genocided literally like a fifth or more your country literally retroactively justifies the holocaust.

    stay rational, liberals