- SuspiciousCatThing ( @SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social ) 3•8 hours ago
So, unrelated, but does anyone know what movie that frame is from? Because I swear I remember starting it but I didn’t get to finish it and I don’t remember what it was but I kinda liked it. It was about something from space hitting earth I think?
- 0ops ( @0ops@lemm.ee ) 5•8 hours ago
It’s Terminator 2 I’m pretty sure. Maybe you’re thinking of Armageddon?
- BastingChemina ( @BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ) 2•7 hours ago
You might be thinking about the movie Sunshine, there is a similar scene at the end of the movie.
- childOfMagenta ( @childOfMagenta@lemm.ee ) 3•8 hours ago
Terminator 2
- CyberMonkey404 ( @CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml ) 21•19 hours ago
Excuse me while I heat up the popcorn before diving into the comment section
- ShinkanTrain ( @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ) English13•20 hours ago
They didn’t have that many nukes at the time. Plus people would be upset if they nuked a white people country
- Tiltinyall ( @Tiltinyall@beehaw.org ) 2•15 hours ago
Time was a real factor, Germany was on the verge of nuclear technology too. Many lives were spared because Hitler over extended himself. By the time the Allies were at Berlin they were on a campaign of submission.
- kittenzrulz123 ( @kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 10•21 hours ago
The only way Hitler would have won is if America stayed out
80% of nazis died on the eastern front. The US helped sure but it could have been won without them
- mlfh ( @mlfh@lemmy.ml ) 20•20 hours ago
Nikita Khrushchev, in his own memoir, stating clearly that the USSR could not have won the war on its own:
I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin’s views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were “discussing freely” among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany’s pressure, and we would have lost the war. No one ever discussed this subject officially, and I don’t think Stalin left any written evidence of his opinion, but I will state here that several times in conversations with me he noted that these were the actual circumstances. He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so.
-Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich; Khrushchev, Serge (2004). Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Commissar, 1918–1945. Penn State Press. pp. 638–639.
- GarbageShootAlt2 ( @GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml ) 6•14 hours ago
I really have no basis for evaluating the matter at hand one way or the other, but I would like to point out that Khrushchev is not a great source, especially when he’s saying “Here’s something Stalin said all the time in private that he never said publicly”.
Don’t get me wrong, you may very well be right, but I find it less convincing when paired with this evidence than if the claim is simply made with no evidence at all.
Interesting, I did not know about this. I’m hesitant to believe it bc its Kruschev but I will look into it further
- kittenzrulz123 ( @kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 6•20 hours ago
They fought with American weapons and American funding
Which was a very easy way for americans to fight the nazis at the expense of soviet lives. Not that their contribution wasn’t valuable of course. It’s just worth noting the full intentions of the united states.
- Tiltinyall ( @Tiltinyall@beehaw.org ) 4•20 hours ago
Soviets used Soviet lives to win. The same tactic they used against Napoleon. Retreat and destroy all essential supplies. The Soviet winter killed many of thier own too.
The soviets were invaded by the nazis. The nazis were in the USSR killing them on their land. Would you expect them not to die? To not fight using whatever means they could to protect their families from actual nazis who they know have slaughtered millions? Who else’s lives would they use?
- Tiltinyall ( @Tiltinyall@beehaw.org ) 1•15 hours ago
Doubling back on the lives shed by the U.S. statement then?
I’m not sure how this is in contradiction