“Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side. We will bury you,” he said quoting former USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Russian politician Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday Russia could have a right to go to war with NATO.

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    1 year ago

    Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side. We will bury you

    Because we all know the Soviet Union and Russia are exactly the same thing and the Russian military is definitely as powerful and as capable as the Soviet Union, no doubt. Please pay no attention to the complete lack of victory in Ukraine.

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      When has either the Soviet Union or Russia “won” anything in the last 150 years?

      Their “win” in WWII was throwing as many bodies as possible and starving their own cities to delay the Germans long enough for winter to set in.

      Soviet casualties were 4.5x higher than Axis casualties in operation Barbarossa. They lost 21k aircraft to 2800 for the Germans. 20k tanks destroyed vs 2700 for the Germans. And 4.5 million casualties compared to 1 million for the Germans.

      I wouldn’t call that “burying” anyone. The biggest effect it had was weakening the Germans enough for the Allies to finish the job on the Western Front and bail the Soviets out.

      The Soviets lost in Afghanistan in the 80s because of the US funding the Mujahideen.

      Their biggest victory in the last century was taking Crimea because nobody else stepped up to help Ukraine like we are now.

      Russia has nukes. That’s it. Beyond that they’re worthless militarily.

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      Hey, now. If not the capabilities of the soviets, at least they’re still using the same tech.

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      Russia doesn’t need a victory, it needs a long running war. Because this war is bringing Russia shitloads of money.