yep. the USSR tried to make treaties with the UK and France but the Chamberlain government was like "deal with commies? no way!" so the USSR ended up kind of being forced to make a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany
Stalin tried to sign a mutual security agreement with the French and the Czechoslovakians (Hitler's first major conquest) in 1935. The USSR could have contained Germany with western assistance before WW2 even broke out but capitalists trusted Hitler more lol
Britain had just piece-mealed part of Russia after WWI and named it Poland.
The historic reasons for not wanting Russians there was pretty bunk. It had been Russia for about 200 years, then the Germans conquered it in WWI, and then the Germans gave it up as part of the treaty of Versailles.
Obviously that area has been contested historically, but it was basically a roundabout way of Britain stealing Russian land with German war gains and creating a buffer puppet state against the commies who were making the aristocracy really fucking nervous at this point.
Not too dissimilar to their usual tactics in Ireland, Africa, as well as Israel later on.
But, anyways, what I'm saying is the Brits didn't want them there because they were afraid of the commies and had nothing to do with the history of the land.
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all the other western powers had already made pacts with the nazis because they wanted them to take out the USSR
https://imgur.com/a/42DggUX
yep. the USSR tried to make treaties with the UK and France but the Chamberlain government was like "deal with commies? no way!" so the USSR ended up kind of being forced to make a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany
Stalin tried to sign a mutual security agreement with the French and the Czechoslovakians (Hitler's first major conquest) in 1935. The USSR could have contained Germany with western assistance before WW2 even broke out but capitalists trusted Hitler more lol
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Britain had just piece-mealed part of Russia after WWI and named it Poland.
The historic reasons for not wanting Russians there was pretty bunk. It had been Russia for about 200 years, then the Germans conquered it in WWI, and then the Germans gave it up as part of the treaty of Versailles.
Obviously that area has been contested historically, but it was basically a roundabout way of Britain stealing Russian land with German war gains and creating a buffer puppet state against the commies who were making the aristocracy really fucking nervous at this point.
Not too dissimilar to their usual tactics in Ireland, Africa, as well as Israel later on.
But, anyways, what I'm saying is the Brits didn't want them there because they were afraid of the commies and had nothing to do with the history of the land.
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oh i'm just ranting you're good