• emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    the USA didn't want to enter the war until the nazis were losing because they were hoping the nazis would eliminate the USSR

    • RION [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Pretty much, yeah.

      “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible..." - Harry S. Truman, 1941

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        no wonder the reactionaries made sure to swap this shithead yokel for Wallace