• Bloomcole@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I am grateful to the Soviets for it indeed.
    Not the leeches who let Europe be destroyed for their benefit and came in to reap the rewards.
    Maybe they do have a point somewhere since they evacuated a lot of those German speakers to US, Canada, Brasil and Argentina…

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      Let’s be honest, the Soviets were perfectly willing to allow the Nazis to destroy Europe and then reap the rewards. Just ask Poland. Of course, then the Nazis invaded the Soviets and that threw a spanner into the works.

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        The Nazis were always coming for Russia. Hitler wrote about it in Mein Kampf. The soviets knew full well that appeasement would result in eventually invasion. They navigated the situation as best they could having just went through a civil war 30 years prior. There was never an illusion that the Third Reich could be negotiated with to save Russia.

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        Stalin ‘planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler if Britain and France agreed pact’

        The offer of a military force to help contain Hitler was made by a senior Soviet military delegation at a Kremlin meeting with senior British and French officers, two weeks before war broke out in 1939.

        The new documents, copies of which have been seen by The Sunday Telegraph, show the vast numbers of infantry, artillery and airborne forces which Stalin’s generals said could be dispatched, if Polish objections to the Red Army crossing its territory could first be overcome.

        But the British and French side - briefed by their governments to talk, but not authorised to commit to binding deals - did not respond to the Soviet offer, made on August 15, 1939. Instead, Stalin turned to Germany, signing the notorious non-aggression treaty with Hitler barely a week later.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        Thank you for the masterclass in how to navigate existence entirely brain-free. Truly, your ability to function without even a hint of cognitive activity is nothing short of revolutionary.