I can imagine stalin telling his advisors "twenty thousand? I'll see you half a million! They used a thousand bombers! Who cares how impossible it sounds?"

You think Soviets would've felt sympathy for the Nazis they were told to hate the entire war? It was much easier to tout the famine in India or the lynching in the US as an example of evils of the West.

How many media companies were owned by krauts post-WW2? Meanwhile, Jews are building their own nation, and are desperate for foreign military aid, they had every reason to propagate the myth, and the means.

I'm not gonna step right out and say that stalin and the soviets directly were in charge

but the east germans most likely clamped down on the myth

with some aid from soviet intelligence to spin it into a convincing little story about how the west flattened a city

and boy oh boy did they get gibs out of it

there was one church in dresden that cost 180 million euro to repair

Hardly. East Germans were basically told to pretend they weren't German, just part of the Soviet Union. The USSR didn't want them to think they were another Socialist country like Yugoslavia, just part of the Union. Invoking Dresden would encourage nationalist fervor, and weaken the influence of the USSR over Germany.

they did it all up in gold and put in a massive organ

all to pay for the alleged bombing

give us your gold, anglo

Why would East Germany propagate the myth and demand money for destroyed churches? Would seem rather uncharacteristic of them to ask for money to repair churches, considering the USSR's atheism.

money and pity, mostly

To rebuild churches and famous landmarks that invoke pre-Soviet Germany?

I don't think anybody wanted to pity the Germans, and if you asked any Englishmen if they felt bad about Dresden, they'd probably say it's payback for the bombs they dropped on us.

I could've been sentimentality that drove the bombings, or more likely, a form of shock and awe, to convince the few Germans still fighting to surrender.

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Never forget the rape of Berlin

Never forget

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@hey.free. wifi Wouldn't've happened without allied support, either. The Union sucked, and without our significant military aid in the form of weapons and vehicles, and attacking Germany from another front, they would've fallen to the Germans and the Japs.

Stalin, even then, asked us for more aid. He was scared shitless of Germany.

Europe should have United

But the were lied to

Pan-Europeanism is bad imo.

And so many brittish killed Germans because muh reasons

Some Europe countries are better than others, and I don't want British tax money going to propping up garbage European economies like Italy or Greece.

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Though I think focusing specifically on Dresden, is pointless. We firebombed Japan plenty. We starved the Indians. We nuked Japan, twice.

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Europe United under facisim with one leader wouldn't be too bad

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