r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation who are those little dinosaurs PETAH ?

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u/YaBoi843 9d ago

The little dinosaurs are the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had a much larger fighting force than Nazi Germany, and the Soviet military strategy was to throw men into the blender and overwhelm the Nazis with sheer numbers. Additionally, it was the Soviets who captured Berlin, thus taking Germany out of WW2.

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u/Misery_incorporated 9d ago

The whole "USSR strategy is to send wave after wave until the meat grinder is clogged" is an exaggeration. There were times when their logistics were shit, but if anyone is attempting to downplay the effectiveness of Marshal Zhukov then they are either ignorant or bad faith 

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u/Existing_Instance554 9d ago

Just look at the war in Ukraine, they are still using the same tactics and failing terribly against a much smaller opponent

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u/Misery_incorporated 9d ago

First of all, Russia is not the USSR, they are not the same entity. Both Ukraine and Russia were part of it. Second, Russian military tactics have been heavily dependent on artillery and small teams of ground forces. Completely different tactics 

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u/Maleficent_Piece_893 9d ago

the ussr was a russian empire which putin would like to rebuild

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u/Misery_incorporated 8d ago

Wild to call it that when the Georgians were disproportionately represented to the highest degree 

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u/TurkishTechnocrat 8d ago

It's kind of funny how much the role of Ukraine is downplayed in the day-to-day administration of the Soviet Union, both by Russian nationalists who seek to spread the same lie you believe in and by Ukrainian nationalists who feel like they have to rewrite history to build an identity for themselves.

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u/JumboFister 8d ago

It’s nerds on the internet arguing about WW2 it’s all in bad faith

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u/Haru17 8d ago

Russian tactics were to bottle up civilians in Stalingrad and use them as human shields to draw the Nazis into urban warfare. Seems pretty bad faith to gloss over the largest battle in the whole war.

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u/Misery_incorporated 8d ago edited 8d ago

Battle of Kursk was the largest battle, they also didn't use human shields in Stalingrad. What are you on about?

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u/quadraticcheese 9d ago

Also, Amerifats will say this and then deem union generals during the civil war as geniuses for doing the exact same thing