Deeply ironic to see Ukraine superimposed with American South.
Man I wish I could find the equivalent statistics between the two in terms of industry and agricultural land as well because they were even more shocking than the total land area alone. A Barbarossa equivalent into the US would've been like if all the farmland west of the Mississippi River and all the industry east of the Appalachian Mountains was destroyed or under enemy control iirc. The population losses are also staggering: if the US suffered the same ratio of dead/total population as the USSR did then 18.5 million Americans would have died instead of 400k. The strength and resilience of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War is hard to overstate
And then clueless Americans have the fucking nerve to say "but why are people poorer in muh gommunism, checkmate carl mark!1!!1". Like you can compare America who had 80 years of uninterrupted peace in their mainland (1865-1945), whereas the Soviet Union and Russia just in the 20th century went through 4 major wars, one of which killed 27 million people. Because socialism is this smoking gun that can instantly overcome an unimaginable geopolitical and economic advantage that the west has had throughout history.
Unfalsifiable orthodoxies, etc etcYeah it's super frustrating to try to unpack these particular
, especially with people who are nominally historically literate otherwise but just cannot forsake the anti communism they've been fed their whole lives
This is fascinating. Also the load time reminded me of early days on the internet
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big shoutout to the partisan lady kicking ass just south of Louisville
3000 miles to Vladivostok from LA really puts into perspective how massive the USSR was
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just dropped.I do appreciate the high resolution though!
An alt history with St. Louis as a parallel of Stalingrad would be pretty cool.
