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Even AES friendly leftists routinely ignore or seemingly never learned the specifics of the calamitous horror that was Operation Barbarossa and the subsequent Nazi occupation
Not only did Soviet Union have to rebuild and repopulate millions of square kms from scratch, but they also had to reconstruct civilization throughout Eastern Europe and beyond, all while dealing with a never-ending siege by the most powerful empire in history
This is why I've always described the Cold War as a struggle between literal post-apocalyptic societies attempting to rebuild civilization and apocalyptic empires desperate to manifest the end times
Without examination I had called it a civilized society having to compete with one that was organized as a blood thirsty empire optimized for death and destruction being pit against each other in a competition of violence. If you asked me why I didn't consider the ripple effect of WW2 I would have and am currently telling you "oh yeah..."