Soviet Paintings from WW2

[Josephus]

Or shit on the chest of another woman. 

Tragic.

for the women, I mean.

[Strix]

Am I the only one who finds it a little silly to complain about parading prisoners during WWII?  If I were a German POW, the parade would probably be the most pleasant part of my captivity.  If I were a Soviet POW in German hands, I would be wishing that I were in shape to be in such a parade.

Yes, the Soviets treated the Germans quite well. I remember learning in history class that out of the 90,000 (or so) Germans taken prisoner at Stalingrad only 5,000 survived the 10 years to be released back to Germany.

It must have been such a worker's paradise that the other 85,000 refused to leave.

[The Brain]

But the Russians were the good guys in WW2! How dare you.

[DGuller]

Am I the only one who finds it a little silly to complain about parading prisoners during WWII?  If I were a German POW, the parade would probably be the most pleasant part of my captivity.  If I were a Soviet POW in German hands, I would be wishing that I were in shape to be in such a parade.

Yes, the Soviets treated the Germans quite well. I remember learning in history class that out of the 90,000 (or so) Germans taken prisoner at Stalingrad only 5,000 survived the 10 years to be released back to Germany.

It must have been such a worker's paradise that the other 85,000 refused to leave.

Where did I say that the Soviets treated the Germans well?

[Caliga]

The title? "They Saw Moscow."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD9fqcFijUA

[jimmy olsen]

The Soviet Union, I suppose, did not have the goal of enslaving the peoples of eastern europe, but it just happened to work out that way

It did? I must have missed when that happened.

You're so ridiculous when you say things like this I wonder if you're a parody.

[CountDeMoney]

Yes, the Soviets treated the Germans quite well. I remember learning in history class that out of the 90,000 (or so) Germans taken prisoner at Stalingrad only 5,000 survived the 10 years to be released back to Germany.

It must have been such a worker's paradise that the other 85,000 refused to leave.

Think of it as a really bad road game.

[Razgovory]

Am I the only one who finds it a little silly to complain about parading prisoners during WWII?  If I were a German POW, the parade would probably be the most pleasant part of my captivity.  If I were a Soviet POW in German hands, I would be wishing that I were in shape to be in such a parade.

Yes, the Soviets treated the Germans quite well. I remember learning in history class that out of the 90,000 (or so) Germans taken prisoner at Stalingrad only 5,000 survived the 10 years to be released back to Germany.

It must have been such a worker's paradise that the other 85,000 refused to leave.

Most died of typus and malnutrition resulting from the battle.  The Germans captured at Stalingrad were in really poor shape.  A major die off was all but inevitable.  Officers had a 50% chance of survival, enlisted 10%.  Guess who was better fed in the siege?

[CountDeMoney]

Am I the only one who finds it a little silly to complain about parading prisoners during WWII?  If I were a German POW, the parade would probably be the most pleasant part of my captivity.  If I were a Soviet POW in German hands, I would be wishing that I were in shape to be in such a parade.

Yes, the Soviets treated the Germans quite well. I remember learning in history class that out of the 90,000 (or so) Germans taken prisoner at Stalingrad only 5,000 survived the 10 years to be released back to Germany.

It must have been such a worker's paradise that the other 85,000 refused to leave.

Most died of typus and malnutrition resulting from the battle.  The Germans captured at Stalingrad were in really poor shape.  A major die off was all but inevitable.  Officers had a 50% chance of survival, enlisted 10%.  Guess who was better fed in the siege?

That doesn't disqualify the horrid conditions they were kept in as prisoners until the fucking 1950s, you ass.

[Faeelin]

It is certainly the case that no matter how bad the German POWs had it at the hands of the Russian captors, they were a hell of a lot better off than the Soviet POWs in German hands were.

I suppose my thing is that whiel I recognize the USSR was an evil monstrous regime, the Soviet people themselves fought a struggle to the death to ensure their children would not be serfs for Nazi farmers, unable to read or write, exterminated in the millions for a state that aimed to create golgotha on Earth.

But YMMV.

[CountDeMoney]

I suppose my thing is that whiel I recognize the USSR was an evil monstrous regime, the Soviet people themselves fought a struggle to the death to ensure their children would not be serfs for Nazi farmers, unable to read or write, exterminated in the millions for a state that aimed to create golgotha on Earth.

As opposed to, say, ensuring their children would not be serfs for collective farms, unable to read or write, exterminated in the millions for a man named Stalin that aimed to create Golgotha on Earth.

[Josephus]

That doesn't disqualify the horrid conditions they were kept in as prisoners until the fucking 1950s, you ass.

No argument.

Our point, is, though, that at least, starving as they might have been, they were let out for some excercise from time to time. After all, nothing beats marching up and down the square.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLJ8ILIE780

[DGuller]

I suppose my thing is that whiel I recognize the USSR was an evil monstrous regime, the Soviet people themselves fought a struggle to the death to ensure their children would not be serfs for Nazi farmers, unable to read or write, exterminated in the millions for a state that aimed to create golgotha on Earth.

As opposed to, say, ensuring their children would not be serfs for collective farms, unable to read or write, exterminated in the millions for a man named Stalin that aimed to create Golgotha on Earth.

Soviet Union had near universal literacy rate, so just that already make life under Stalin better.

[Razgovory]

That doesn't disqualify the horrid conditions they were kept in as prisoners until the fucking 1950s, you ass.

Most of the Stalingrad guys died well before that.  There was a massive die off in the first few months.

[Valmy]

Soviet Union had near universal literacy rate, so just that already make life under Stalin better.

How else could they be properly educated by readying Pravda everyday?