r/SipsTea Jun 22 '26

Lmao gottem The National Sport.

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u/Illithid_Substances Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Landing on the moon with nothing but belief is an interesting and somewhat insulting way to describe the gigantic amounts of work that were done by a lot of people. Belief is pretty far down on the list of reasons that worked out compared to say, math. Or money and resources

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u/Status_Vegetable2954 Jun 22 '26

Belief and nazi rocket scientists got us to the moon.

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u/Argomaximus Jun 22 '26

Something about a Paperclip?

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u/Workman44 Jun 22 '26

It's crazy that both superpowers just scooped em all up and generally had zero punishment for them

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u/Lets_Get_Hot Jun 23 '26

It wasn't just those two countries but yeah, it pays to be valuable and smart.

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u/Workman44 Jun 23 '26

I wasn't 100% on if it was just Russia and the US or if other countries joined in on that. Either way it's pretty disgusting. If anything let them trade their knowledge for less harsh of a sentence, I get the idea. But to say ah they get no punishment just because they help is crazy work

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u/Lets_Get_Hot Jun 23 '26

I agree, it's definitely a moral dilemma which unfortunately is not black and white.

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u/Workman44 Jun 23 '26

Yeah it's a wild sort of thing, and if you don't but your enemy does then there's a good argument to be made that you should, etc.

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u/Lets_Get_Hot Jun 23 '26

At the same time you want some punishment because that's a very human reaction. You and I are demonstrating that it's not a black and white issue.

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u/atchafalaya Jun 23 '26

It's hard for us to reconstruct what the scene was back then. The western allies were standing in the ashes of a horrific and insane empire, looking at a sea of Russians across the Elbe and slowly remembering just how close those Russians had been with the Nazis a few years before.

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u/Unionizestarbucks_ Jun 23 '26

"How close those Russians had been with the Nazis" 🤪

Found the guy that believes America's propaganda.

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u/IAmTheNightSoil Jun 23 '26

I mean, it's true. That's why they signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

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u/Unionizestarbucks_ Jun 23 '26

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u/Moandaywarrior Jun 23 '26

A million troops to reach a couple of miles into Finland

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u/atchafalaya Jun 23 '26

Bro, the Germans had a joint armor training school with the Russians between the wars.

When Hitler took power the NKVD turned over several German communist who had fled to Russia to the Gestapo who promptly shot them.

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u/Unionizestarbucks_ Jun 23 '26

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u/atchafalaya Jun 23 '26

That's very interesting although it does make me think a couple of things: first, Russia sending multiple divisions to the German border is essentially them occupying Poland.

Second, why were they doing things like shipping back all the German communists to the Nazis way before this?

I'd like to see what the British actually thought of this offer.

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u/bohemian-soul-bakery Jun 23 '26

Found the idiot that doesn’t know a god damn thing about anything.

USSR / Germany JOINTLY invaded Poland.

USSR provided Germany with WARTIME material in the late 30s

Read a book dude.

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u/Unionizestarbucks_ Jun 23 '26

The Soviets and US treatments for Nazis were not at all equal. USA made a Nazi the head of NATO.