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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 150 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (17 children)

As somebody told me the other day, they beat Hitler, they beat Napoleon.

In case any of you lurking Trump voters here need another example to ignore of how this person has no business in government and is too ignorant to be president. You are complicit in an impending tragedy to your history and the world.

This guy says he is the one who can stop World War III and people believe it. Embarrassing and terrifying, weird just doesn’t cut it.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (6 children)

LoL, yeah.

And they beat the Nazis with a looooot of help from the US, pooring equipment into the Soviet Union, and then drafted the hell out of their country and sacrificed millions.

The Napoleonic war was when soldiers muzzle loaded their guns and prrimarily armies travelled by foot or rode horses. And kept warm in the winter by normally not going out to fight wars.

[–] coyootje@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They also very much had the advantage of knowing their terrain and both Hitler and Napoleon got cocky and kept going during winter time without being prepared for it. Hitler especially was actually making good progress until winter hit so you could almost even say that Russia took a calculated risk (even though I think it's more of a "got lucky" situation).

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 11 points 6 days ago

Not to mention the disingenuousness of leaving out how they lost to Hindenburg and Ludendorff in between those two

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