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by gdy 2177 days ago
The USSR won the Great Patriotic War. It had some help from Allies, people in Russia are aware of it.

And what you see in the White House tweeter is a lie.

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It is actually worse.

That claim is about Western Europe only [0]. Think about it. Without USA and UK entire Europe would be occupied by USSR. Litva claimed it was liberated in 1993 (48 years after end of war). I never understood them until one day.

My country was attacked without declaration of war in June 22, 1941.

My country was attacked without declaration of war in February 27, 2014.

It opens eyes.

I can't be sure but people from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Mongolia, Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine may understand. You may check what do they think about Russia, like Poland [3].

Russian government antagonizes these countries. It does not matter because its real enemies are its own people.

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Navalny claims "27 millions Russians" - that number is entire USSR [1], Russia loss 13,950,000; Ukraine loss 6,850,000.

[0] Sorry, Russian language source for now https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-52611746

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

[3] first link I've found - conveniently omits partitioning czechoslovakia and early years but is representative https://www.znak.com/2020-01-17/chto_v_polshe_dumayut_o_ross...

Please stay on topic. You are not bringing up anything I don't already know and what you bring up is irrelevant to the discussion.