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by spwa4 62 days ago
Yes, but you're leaving out the other 9 countries the Soviet Union occupied, and immediately started killing the population to keep their conquests: Poland, Austria’s Soviet zone, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

By contrast, the US retreated. And also didn't start killing any population.
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cogman10 62 days ago
> And also didn't start killing any population.

Except for the populations in the global South. We spent a decade firebombing Vietnam and Cambodia.

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coldtea 62 days ago
"Killing their population" as in executing some Nazi collaborators, of which there was no shortage in all, down to full cooperation? Like the ones involved in the Axis alliance and in the eastern front offensives that caused the deaths of millions of their own people?

>And also didn't start killing any population.

Yes, just Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and anybody who leaned national sovereignity/left in the Latin America and later the middle east.

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