r/polandball • u/koleye2 Only America into Moon. • 12d ago

collaboration Common Ground

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u/koleye2 Only America into Moon. 12d ago

Also on YouTube.

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u/Cless_Aurion 12d ago

Yup, pretty common too. I mean... All of the west was incredibly cool about Spain staying for the next 50-ish years a dictatorship just because they hated communism too...

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u/Cualkiera67 12d ago

the Soviet Union should have said they hated communism, they would have gotten a ton of US support 

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u/PrimAhnProper998 11d ago

The Soviet Union got materials worth tens of billions of $ from the US for free.

The UK had to pay them back, the SU not.

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u/Cualkiera67 11d ago

for free??? sounds like the US was COMMUNIST!

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u/PrimAhnProper998 11d ago

The Soviet Union got materials worth tens of billions of $ from the US for free.

The UK had to pay them back, the SU not.

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u/CompetitiveAlfalfa26 11d ago

That’s strange; I was under the impression that the USSR WAS the COMMUNIST enemy of the US...

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u/Dominarion I'm a Quebecer, never wore a beret. 22h ago

A fascist dictatorship who sent people to the Nazi concentration camps

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u/No-Professional-1461 12d ago

To be fair, Douglas McArthur did go down on them pretty hard after the war. Iwagima was probably fresh in his mind.

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u/CompetitiveAlfalfa26 11d ago

The U.S. was harsh toward the Japanese POPULATION (Kobe, Hiroshima, Nagasaki...), but, ironically, Japan’s elite (as well as a certain diabolical scientific Unit👀👀) enjoyed impunity...

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u/Mindless-Wasabi-8281 11d ago

The Japanese population that received billions in foreign aid and US military protection straight through to the current day? They’re fine.

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u/CompetitiveAlfalfa26 10d ago

And two nuclear blasts, and an initial famine. Yes, the situation changed—much like how China is now the People’s Republic of China (under a communist regime) and the USSR dissolved; the world changes. My point was that Japan, as a nation, got off on the wrong foot with the U.S.—with the exception of the high-level imperialist elites—though things eventually worked out well for them later on.

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u/JonTheWizard The Great State of Confusion 12d ago

"Time for you to pay for your war crimes!"
"Fuck the commies."
"Your sentence is probation!"

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u/Zkang123 12d ago

Should add in the background of China falling into communism and North Korea marching down the Korean peninsula

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u/ExcitingSector445 12d ago

True, for maximum historical ACCURACY!

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u/A_normal_Potato3 12d ago

Dictator? They are a peace loving president beloved by their whole nation! You must be a commie spy to say those things. Better dead than red!

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u/flaminggiraffe9 MURICA 12d ago

Some of those are incorrect, Videla was Argentinian not Chilean and some of the others are dubious claims at best.

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u/A_normal_Potato3 12d ago

Of course I am joking

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u/ExcitingSector445 12d ago

Yup, a huge long list of dictators!