I wonder if the Nazis killed anyone in Soviet territory or did anything particularly heinous that would disgust anyone.

(I kind of wonder if Quora should be disallowed cause it's just easy pickings)

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Winston-Churchill-oppose-killing-SS-officers-after-the-war-Did-Stalin-want-them-dead-for-revenge-or-to-stop-a-future-Nazi-Germany

    • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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      Yes, as a response to Roosevelt joking in fact. The (likely apocryphal) anecdote goes, while meeting at the Tehran conference in 1943 Roosevelt suggested unseriously that after the war they should execute 10,000 Nazi officers, Stalin replied 10,000? Why not 50,000?

      Then Churchill stormed out in a huff because "they were just honorable men defending their nation".

      • HexBroke
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        3 months ago

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        • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          Truly the historical figure that makes me angriest thanks to his mainstream historical perception as a lovable roguish wholesome chungus, versus his actual nature as an oafish brutal bloodsoaked demon - especially compared against the heap of trash piled on the name of Stalin.

          Liberals will accuse you of falling for "cult of personality propaganda" and then act like Winston doesn't have a place in hell right next to Adolf.

          • PKMKII [none/use name]
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            8 months ago

            I just fall back on “ask the Bengalis what they think of Churchill.”

          • GinAndJuche
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            8 months ago

            But DAE le epic “good for him it was bloody cold out”?