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Comment author: gwern 02 July 2014 01:25:39AM 3 points [-]

Politics/religion:

Psychology:

Comment author: [deleted] 03 July 2014 03:37:02PM *  2 points [-]

Losing the War is incredible. Here's an equally incredible flash animation of the Eastern Front, to counter it's American bias.

Comment author: gwern 03 July 2014 05:13:39PM 2 points [-]

Yeah. It takes a long time to really get going, but then it's a pretty amazing... essay? history? debunking? critique of propaganda? I'm not even sure how to describe it.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 July 2014 09:50:16AM *  1 point [-]

Article:

To this day, most Russians think World War II was something that happened primarily in their country and the battles everywhere else in the world were a sideshow.

Reality:

more than 3/4 of German casualties were on the Eastern Front

Article:

In August 1943, for instance, in the hilly countryside around the city of Kursk (about 200 miles south of Moscow), the German and Soviet armies collided in an uncontrolled slaughter: more than four million men and thousands of tanks desperately maneuvered through miles of densely packed minefields and horizon-filling networks of artillery fire. It may have been the single largest battle fought in human history, and it ended -- like all the battles on the eastern front -- in a draw.

Reality:

Result: Decisive Soviet victory / Germany's offensive power on the Eastern Front is crippled

Territorial changes: Soviets liberate territory along a 2,000 km (1,200 mi) wide front

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