• IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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    Mostly, yes, the West was only busy trying to steal German oil colonies in Africa instead of actually fighting the Nazis.

    Not to liberate the people of course but to colonize the land themselves and steal the oil for themselves.

    America only swooped in after the Nazis had already been defeated at Stalingrad, and the Soviets were at the point of taking over all of Europe.

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      12 days ago

      And, let me guess, after that, the trees in Moscow grew rubles and Stalin himself sculpted the sun?

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        12 days ago

        After that NATO integrated many top Nazi leaders directly into leadership roles and put a Nazi official at the top of NATO not long after WW2 was over.

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          And NATO was created because a bunch of allied countries were bored, with nothing to do and had too much money on their hands?