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[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]</sup> 04:49, January 28, 2026 (EST)
[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]</sup> 04:49, January 28, 2026 (EST)
:We should realize, the Red Army fought heroically in WW2 (including its large percebrage of Jewish soldiers. One might bring up the logic that the US was desperate, after years of destruction of civilians by the Axis to finish the war. As to the idea of 'extermination,' not just bombing civilians, that was specific to the Nazis plans, to exterminate certain races.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 17:01, January 28, 2026 (EST)
:We should realize, the Red Army fought heroically in WW2 (including its large percebrage of Jewish soldiers. One might bring up the logic that the US was desperate, after years of destruction of civilians by the Axis to finish the war. As to the idea of 'extermination,' not just bombing civilians, that was specific to the Nazis plans, to exterminate certain races.[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 17:01, January 28, 2026 (EST)
::War brings out the rawest of emotions. Red Army soldiers for the most part were not fighting to spread an [[ideology]]. They were defending their homeland. After [[Stalingrad]], they were fighting for revenge. But I can find no case where the [[Soviet Union]] deliberately targeted [[civilian]]s (although I don't deny it may have happened).
::But there is no denying that Western Allied powers deliberately targeted [[civilian]] [[taxpayer]]s of the German and Japanese regimes, their children and old people, to demoralize popular support for national leaders. (As General Sherman's March to the Sea did - to make the point, "your government can't defend you"). Whether killing [[civilian]]s is "[[strategic]]" or [[ideological]]" is debatable. [[NATO]] has never abandoned that approach (as we've recently seen in the [[NATO invasion of Kursk]] where there was absolutely NO [[military]] objective).
::From the historic Soviet perspective, the debate is what's worse or better, being murdered or being enslaved? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]</sup> 18:55, January 28, 2026 (EST)