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Wow, I was not actually aware of this.
Certainly in history class in the UK I got taught about the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and NOTHING ELSE. I've already since learned (from here,) that the USSR wanted an anti-fascist alliance which western powers rejected. After more research now, I didn't realise quite to what effort all of Europe was going to to actually sign pacts with Nazi Germany.
All that conspiring to ally with the Nazis, suppress the USSR's anti-fascism, and to isolate them entirely. Situation blows up in their face, the USSR then, almost single-handedly, saves the western world and wins the war with Germany.
To then, half a century later, be like
HOW DARE THE USSR SPEAK TO THE NAZIS THIS PROVES THEY'RE JUST AS BAD is even greater hypocrisy than I thought. We didn't just force them into it, we were already doing it ourselves years earlier.
The capitalists wanted to use hitler as an attack dog against the soviet union. They were fine with what he was doing so long as the attack would go eastward. Winston Churchill made his opinions of fascists very clear to the italian fascists:
It was actually the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that forced the west into siding with the Soviets, this pact made them realise Hitler was going to go west before going east. It forced the UK and France onto the side of the Soviets and it bought the Soviets crucial time to move their industries which were all very close to the border of Poland, they moved all of them up into the mountains. The Soviets may have been able to win at that time still but feared these industries were very vulnerable.
Plus they were already at war with fascist Japan at the time. The pact was so the Soviet Union didn't have to fight a two-front war against fascists in their European and Asian borders at the same time. The Soviet Union would then go on to sign a similar non-aggression pact with fascist Japan right before fascist Germany invaded the Soviet Union. And once fascist Germany was defeated, the Soviet Union would then violate their non-aggression pact with fascist Japan by invading Manchuria.
What the fuck did churchill think leninism actually entailed
He was just racist.
And stupid.
rights for people who werent rich white slave owning men, which was terrifying of course
chad sex-haver Bolshevik vs virgin colonizer anglo
Ahh, English people imagining "Leninism" to be some horrifying dangerous Thing. A problem from the Great Patriotic War that still happens today.
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the funniest tidbit is that poland annexed parts of czechoslovvakia in 1938 with germany, before its own partition. then they are whining about soviets
AND the parts of Poland marked as the USSR's sphere of influence in the M-R pact... Poland stole from the USSR in 1921!
Those areas were taken from (and returned to) the Belarussian and Ukrainian SSRs, so you can also ask libs when Ukraine is going to be returning its occupied Polish land to the 'rightful' owners.