From the Mundane Luxury page.
Imagine believing soldiers would steal washing machines of all things lmao. Like just picture some guy lugging one around along with 30+ kg of gear or trying to stuff it into the crew compartment of a BTR-80 along with himself and his squadmates.
I remember the reporting about Russians being astounded at the Ukrainian roads because Russia just has dirt roads or something.
Which must then be reconciled with the idea that Russia has state funded internet troll farms. Apparently Russia has modern computers with internet access and the same infrastructure as when Napoleon invaded.
Do they think the internet gets delivered via Troika?
Nevermind that Ukraine was part of the USSR and was part of the land between Russia and the probable European front of a future WW3 so they probably built some roads there.
And yeah the Red Army was probably astounded by the German quality of life because if you just got invaded by genocidal maniacs screaming about they needed to kill you to have a better life and you invaded their country and found out their quality of life wasn't that bad... You'd probably be really fucking confused as to why they killed millions of you to begin with! They had nice stuff! Why the fuck did they murder your people?! What more could the world owe them?!
I've been trying to think of how to put into words how this paragraph moves me, but I can't. I can't imagine the pain of having to endure a genocide/holocaust by bullet by people who aren't even desperately fighting for their lives, just fighting to have more. Honestly not nearly enough Nazis saw a noose at the end of WW2.
For what it's worth I'll leave you with this, because it certainly brings me much comfort to think about; General "Hap" Arnold set out this dining table for the accused at Nuremberg:
This table dines fascists
And yeah its fucking mind boggling. The whole "Germany was essentially forced into fascism by the depression and the treaty of Versailles" thing has been debunked. They wanted more. And by God did they get something in return but it wasn't what they'd hoped.
Irl confusion WAS the most common feeling that soviets had about german nazism, after like anger of course.