First of all, the Soviets lost over a million men when taking Berlin, not 170,000. And, quite frankly, what needs to be explained to them is why their stupid pig communist (three redundant terms) leader Stalin caused those 170,000 (1 million) men to die needlessly all because he wanted to be sure and take Berlin before the Americans did. They died for Stalin’s vainglory. And I don’t care how many armed communist thugs or armed Nazi thugs killed each other. They all served socialist scum so what happened to them is largely imaterial to me.
First of all, the Soviets lost over a million men when taking Berlin, not 170,000. And, quite frankly, what needs to be explained to them is why their stupid pig communist (three redundant terms) leader Stalin caused those 170,000 (1 million) men to die needlessly all because he wanted to be sure and take Berlin before the Americans did. They died for Stalin’s vainglory. And I don’t care how many armed communist thugs or armed Nazi thugs killed each other. They all served socialist scum so what happened to them is largely imaterial to me.
It was vainglory in part.
There was another agenda going on though, those thinking ahead already saw the Cold War coming and Nazi Germany had some freakishly advanced technology that would leapfrog whoever got there first. Let’s face it, the American space program came from the Nazis for the most part, and I suspect there are other little toys that were grabbed and never saw the light of day again.
Stalin knew the score and he was going to get everything he could so he could be positioned for the coming order of things. Vain, but not stupid either.