[lostlogin]

> 75 years ago we saved the world from fascism. Who is going to save us from ourselves? :-(

It was mainly Russia who did that. The US effort may well have saved Europe from Communism though.

[ghufran_syed]

The Russians may have had a little help:

"Now they say that the allies never helped us, but it can't be denied that the Americans gave us so many goods without which we wouldn't have been able to form our reserves and continue the war," Soviet General Georgy Zhukov said after the end of WWII.

"We didn’t have explosives, gunpowder. We didn’t have anything to charge our rifle cartridges with. The Americans really saved us with their gunpowder and explosives. And how much sheet steel they gave us! How could we have produced our tanks without American steel? But now they make it seem as if we had an abundance of all that. Without American trucks we wouldn’t have had anything to pull our artillery with."

https://www.rbth.com/defence/2016/03/14/lend-lease-how-ameri...

[refurb]

Russia saved the world from fascism and replaced it with another authoritative system. Not sure I’d call that “saved”.

[reddog]

Ask your friends from the Czech Republic or Hungary or Lithuania about how they were “saved” by Russia.

[encom]

Thanks for that, btw.

[api]

The USSR saved the world from the Nazis and then the US saved the world from the USSR. I like that.

Now who will save the world from the lawless international corporatist panopticon birthed from America? Aliens?

History seems like "she swallowed a spider to eat the fly..."