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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Like there was no other option, like, hmmm, helping Poland fight nazis, and winning the war at the beginning?

The soviets tried forming an anti-nazi alliance before the war started. Promising to send in a million men. They were turned down and upon realising they were on their own, seeked out a non-aggression pact with the Nazis (which everyone had already done up to that point).

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    They were turned down and upon realising they were on their own

    And that's way they signed Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, and then together with Nazis, they attacked Poland?

    Nice strategy.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    No they signed a non-aggression pact which everyone else had done at the time. The pact had spheres of influence, a clear "don't fuck with us when we do things here and we won't fuck with you do things there" there was nothing in it that said anything about some military alliance to invafe Poland.

    Molotov-Ribbentrop was signed 2 weeks before the nazi invasion of Poland and 1 week before it was signed by the supreme soviet. You don't attack a country together within a week that requires months of time planning.

    The Nazis invaded Poland and the polish government went into exile so the soviets rushed in to prevent land that was historically part of their territory and inhabited by many ethnic Belorussians and Ukrainians from being occupied by the Nazis. Land that had been taken from them by Poland in their war of aggression to achieve their maximum historical borders even though as I mentioned had spent so much time outside of Polish control now had sizable Belarusian and Ukrainian inhabitants.

    Of course, were we to live in a timeline where the soviets did leave all of Poland to be occupied by the Nazis. Idiots like you would be going on about how stupid and evil the soviets were for not doing anything from preventing the land from falling into Nazi hands. Doing nothing to protect the people living there when they had the opportunity and allowing the Nazis to get a border even closer.

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    I love how the Nazis were causing havock across the east massacring everything to colonise the land they felt entitled to because of their supposed master race. Yet the moment the soviets start pushing them back and shattering their delusions they immediately call fowl and point to a massacre that looked like what they themselves had been doing the entire time. Basically saying to the west "No no guys stop fighting us. It's the soviets that are the REAL bad guys look what they did! You should be fighting alongside us instead"

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