Politico literally just keeps doubling down on this shit.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • zephyreks [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      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?"

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        They were also hoping that the Germans were able to quickly invade Russia and wipe everyone out and eliminating the communist menace.

        • zephyreks [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          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.

          • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            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