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[–] gualudengren@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Having lots of casualties and human waves being employed are not the same thing you realise this right? When facing a more industrialised power hellbent on your extermination there are going to be heavy casualties.

It is bad, racialised and inaccurate I would highly recommend some introspection on likening certain groups to bugs.

The USSR was as prepared as it reasonably could have been given it's material position and timeline (moving to a war economy, moving factories beyond the Urals, holding troops away from the border to avoid a blitz wiping out the army, the Molotov Ribbentrop buying time to recover from the civil war, etc.) while more time definitely could have had them more prepared that is a meaningless what if. It is however true the soviets were heroes who won a tremendous victory.

[–] hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

It is bad, racialised and inaccurate I would highly recommend some introspection on likening certain groups to bugs.

I will shut up now and listen. I apologize for the ignorant text. Have a good day.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US employed human waves to win D-Day and then decried Chinese human waves in Korea. It's simple jingoism to portray opponents as subhuman, not specific to Nazis.

[–] gualudengren@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps but in this specific case it was the Nazis message being pushed by the US about the USSR.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It isn't even people. The other poster said zerging in the context of drones. It's modern artillery. There's nothing fascist or racist about a large artillery barrage.

[–] gualudengren@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Taking a time-honored Soviet strategy and turning it against them.

Very explicitly referencing the Nazi mythology of the soviet human waves that allegedly won them the war (most likely unintentionally but still something to do some introspection on) and comparing them to the zerg(bugs).

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and comparing them to the zerg(bugs).

Read what he actually wrote.

Drone munitions aren't people.

[–] gualudengren@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Ah yes the soviet drone munitions. /s. You should probably read what is written before scolding others.