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Guess they can't actually explain it after all.
I think its important to point out that although not to the extent of the west at all the soviets were also far from perfect at purging instead of "strategically using" Nazis.
IIRC my world history class, the Soviets where perfectly fine letting the nazis destroy western Europe to the point of signing a non-aggression pact with them and only changed their mind once the Germans decided they would be the first to finally capture Russia from the Russians.
Why then had the Munich men refused all through the Spring and Summer to accept the only terms for an alliance with Russia which could mean anything to Russia? It was, says Schuman, because “all preferred the destruction of Poland to the Soviet defence of Poland. All hoped that the sequence would be a German-Soviet war over the spoils.” Is this a too stern judgment? It fits Ambassador Henderson, who told Hitler, on August 23, that he preferred a German-Soviet agreement to an Anglo-Soviet agreement.
Emphasis mine.
The Cold War & Its Origins, Vol. I, Denna F. Flemming, 1961, Chapter V
If you are referring to the DDR, I have to strongly disagree. That wall was designed to keep people in, not fascists out.
Didn’t the Soviet Union collapse like 33 years ago? I mean fuck I wasn’t even alive when it collapsed. I really don’t get the nostalgia posts. I fucking hate the 20th century and I want something better and new.
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