• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Explanation: In WW1, Germany specifically allowed the Communist leader Lenin to return to Russia, which had recently overthrown the Tsar. They did so, despite being an enemy of Communists, in the hopes that Lenin’s return would sow discord and undermine Russia. They were half-right - the Bolshevik resurgence contributed to the peace treaty signed by Russia in WW1, but the Bolshevik insistence on maintaining the Russian Empire under a red facade came with later consequences that would be… less appealing to Germany’s national interests.

    • bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Thanks, but I still didn’t get the meme in this context. The dog is Germany. The pizza box is “Sending Lenin to Russia” inside it are communism, losing WW2 and the Berlin wall. Germany is being offered these things but doesn’t want them. My metaphor interpretation skills are failing me here…

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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        3 days ago

        So, Germany wanted (and did) to send Lenin to Russia. Their pizza box, looking promising and exciting!

        But after sending Lenin to Russia, rather than the results (opening the box) of “Destabilized Russia” they were hoping for, they got something more along the lines of “Communist-aligned Russia”, which they did not want, and which foisted upon them a defeat in the next World War, which itself resulted in the occupation of their capital and the construction of the Berlin Wall; likewise both of which they did not want.

    • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 days ago

      TBF, Germany didn’t intend to loose at the western front and the treaty of Brest-Litovsk created a large zone of newly independent states, former russian provinces, as e.g. the Baltics and Ukraine.