The Soviets didn't tend to "take nazis in". They took very few Nazi prisoners. Those they did take weren't given sweet research gigs like the US. They were sent to very rough work camps where they produced or perished.
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Look up Operation Osoaviakhim. Russia took 2,500 Nazi engineers, technicians, scientists (and 4000 of their family members) forcing them to work in rocketry and aviation design.
aug 20, 2025, 12:39 am • 2 0 • view
The USSR had its own equivalent to Operation Paperclip. I get the reflex to defend the USSR from slander but they 100% did this
aug 20, 2025, 2:52 am • 2 0 • view
Meanwhile in the US there were SS people that made it here and worked for the CIA or got to practice law or went to work for NASA.
aug 19, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
After WWII, Russia recruited Gestapo and SS as spies against the West, and literally transplanted Nazi research centers, equipment, and personnel to the Soviet Union. Thousands of Nazi scientists, engineers, and technicians were given privileged positions in rocketry, aviation, radar and telemetry.
aug 20, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, like... there's a lot of lies about the USSR, but they were just as ruthless and evil as the US was during the Cold War.
aug 20, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I wouldn't say they were "as evil" given that the US helped kill over well over a million Communists (see Indonesia) and USSR helped fund and arm decolonial movements but definitely just as ruthless, when you've made an enemy of the entire Western world you kinda have to be.
aug 20, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Still I think it's dishonest of people to deny or downplay the USSR's missteps
aug 20, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view
And war crimes, but I'm dropping this, don't want to blow up anyone's notifications further
aug 20, 2025, 10:49 pm • 1 0 • view