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[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Pretty sure the UK literally endured the same amount of stress and terror as Ukraine, given that the Germans dropped tens of thousands of bombs on their major cities for years.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 61 points 2 days ago (5 children)

For what it's worth, Britain probably didn't suffer as much as Ukraine has. The actual island of Great Britain was more or less secured after the aerial battle of Britain was won, and that took less than a year. Military casualties would go on to be comparable to the war in Ukraine, of course, and there was the ongoing difficulty of feeding everyone, but Britain at least had the sea and a massive navy standing between it and the enemy and civilian casualties were "only" about 70,000

[–] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 7 points 2 days ago

With all due respect mate, I am British, I do understand the toll of the Blitz. I'm just conscious of the fact that Ukraine has basically been suffering the same conditions for far longer, as pointed out by the other reply. That isn't an attempt to downplay what Britain suffered, but rather to properly recognise the severity of what Ukraine is suffering. I'm sure I don't need to send photos of the damage done by Russia.

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