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• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t that count as slave labour?

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  • Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

    …wikipedia.org/…/Forced_labor_of_Germans_after_Wo…

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    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Forced labour hmm. I mean it definitely sounds like slave labour, just lawful form of it. The article does have a quote:

      “In accordance with the Yalta agreement, the Russians were using slave labor of millions of Germans and other prisoners of war and civilians”

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  • CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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

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• nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They also committed mass rapes

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  • Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Absolutely…while kidnapping, raping, and murdering children. There was a reason Germans wanted the west troops to match in as opposed to the soviets.

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  • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The frogurt contains potassium cyanide.

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• AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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