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Did you actually read what I wrote or just skim for a keyword?
Yes, the USSR ran Operation Osoaviakhim. They relocated German specialists. And then those specialists were forced to worked in research institutes under massive scrutiny and supervision for minimum wage where they would be executed if they refused to work. Not one of them was made head of the Soviet rocket program. Not one was given a seat on the Central Committee. Not one was appointed to command Warsaw Pact forces.
The Soviet system used their technical labor under massive constraint and threat. The Western system restored their class power. Wernher von Braun didn't just "work" for NASA. He was a leader. Adolf Heusinger didn't just "consult" for NATO. He chaired its Military Committee. These weren't technicians in a lab. They were architects of policy, strategy, and rearmament.
You call that "identical." That's not analysis. That's surrendering to bourgeois propaganda. One system subordinated former fascists to the dictatorship of the proletariat. The other subordinated the postwar order to former fascists. If you can't grasp that distinction, no amount of facts will help you. But please, keep typing. It's instructive. I personally couldn't imagine being so arrogant and idiotic as to embarrass myself to the level you have throughout this thread. You really are showing how you have somewhere between 0 and a negative understanding of history and honestly reality and might possibly be illiterate.
No it's the historical record of what actually happened. The fact you don't like it and wish all countries and systems were equally bad when it comes to fascism doesn't change that. The USSR for it's many faults was absolutely antifascist pre, during and post war.
You are exhausting. So arrogant and so utterly wrong. You should be embarrassed I'm surprised the embarrassment hasn't won out and stopped you from spouting nonsense at least for a bit but I suppose you're still in the denial phase.
Operation Paperclip was far more consequential than Operation Osoaviakhim. Not to mention that Operation Osoaviakhim was much more of a reparation than Operation Paperclip was. Contrary to what @Archangel1313@lemmy.ca thinks, the differences between these two programmes are not trivia worth overlooking.
But they weren't identical that's the whole point I'm making please actually read what I said. I know reading might be hard but you are just wasting your time typing nonsense because you seemingly can't grasp what I'm saying
In the case of the Nazis and fascism reality was "cartoonishly onesided". Again as I said the USSR for its many faults was absolutely antifascist whereas the US/Europe were categorically not. Look into operation gladio. Look into the history of Ford and IBM with regards to the Nazis not just pre war but during the war. Look at the difference between operation Paperclip and Osoaviakhim.
If you think an accurate portrayal of reality is propaganda you really should do some introspection on what you believe, where you learned it etc. You have been embarrassingly wrong in basically every comment I've seen.
I hadn't known this about how the Soviets treated Nazis before and after the war. It's good to learn this and I really enjoy seeing your analysis and rebuttals.
Go back to Reddit
If historical record sounds like the soviets were overwhelmingly better than the west, then that's just your evaluation of the actual historical record. That's what happened, it isn't because soviets good and US bad, it's from fundamental differences in how fascism is treated by communists vs. by liberals.