Volunteering to fight under the Nazi flag under one of the most notorious divisions, and then your own unit becoming even more notorious locally that your parent division becomes nervous: Not a Nazi
Reluctantly invading Poland alongside the Nazis in order to stall a war of extermination against your country, only after pleading with the west to create a military alliance to fend off the Nazis and being rejected: 1000% Nazi forever and ever, there is no question about it. Literally Hitler. Literally worse than Hitler.
That's what I don't get, right. The USSR tried to create alliances with the French and the British to address the German threat, but Stalin was basically ignored because Chamberlain and Lebrun were confident that Hitler couldn't possibly do anything bad (and they were making so much money so things were going well).
Hitler's Master Plan literally involved the genocide of Eastern Slavs.
How did that turn into "the USSR and Nazi Germany were collaborators?"
Is that an established motivation for the French/British stonewalling of Stalin? If so, then fuck... That puts things in an entirely different light. I thought that France and Britain were simply operating out of self-interest.
Volunteering to fight under the Nazi flag under one of the most notorious divisions, and then your own unit becoming even more notorious locally that your parent division becomes nervous: Not a Nazi
Reluctantly invading Poland alongside the Nazis in order to stall a war of extermination against your country, only after pleading with the west to create a military alliance to fend off the Nazis and being rejected: 1000% Nazi forever and ever, there is no question about it. Literally Hitler. Literally worse than Hitler.
That's what I don't get, right. The USSR tried to create alliances with the French and the British to address the German threat, but Stalin was basically ignored because Chamberlain and Lebrun were confident that Hitler couldn't possibly do anything bad (and they were making so much money so things were going well).
Hitler's Master Plan literally involved the genocide of Eastern Slavs.
How did that turn into "the USSR and Nazi Germany were collaborators?"
They were also hoping that the Germans were able to quickly invade Russia and wipe everyone out and eliminating the communist menace.
Is that an established motivation for the French/British stonewalling of Stalin? If so, then fuck... That puts things in an entirely different light. I thought that France and Britain were simply operating out of self-interest.
I’m not sure about France. But the US and Britain were definitely waiting for the Nazis to take care of Russia and leave the rest of the west alone