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The amount of people who seem to consider themselves Soviet history experts because they watched the 'Chernobyl' series (or "Enemy at the Gates", "The Death of Stalin") is a huge bugbear of mine.
Slap 'based on a true story' on anything and people seem to believe their complete nonsense slop is a found-footage documentary. I'm sick of telling so many people people that their favourite fictional "historical" drama (or indeed, even comedy) contains basically zero facts.
No there wasn't one gun per two fucking people in Soviet WW2, no everyone wasn't sleeping on fucking burgers on a control panel and aaaaaaa every 'fact' of yours is wrong just stop it
The Soviet Union was so evil, they sent soldiers in battle with one tank per four people!