Correct in all points. The main goal was still to buy time though. It didn’t work as a buffer zone because the defensive works were not ready by Barbarossa, but the extra year gave the USSR invaluable time to prepare its industry and military.
Edit: also regarding your last point, I always hated how Schindler’s List ends with a Soviet soldier telling the Jews to not go east because people hate them there. It’s such revisionism.
Jewish people were treated better in the USSR than in any western country. The Soviets were the only ones with actual laws against anti-semitism at the time. They were the only ones who had explicitly and openly condemned all forms of racism and reflected this in law and in practice in their society with harsh punishments for anti-semitic or racist attacks.
Meanwhile in the west many were literal Nazi sympathizers and of those that weren’t quite a few either wanted to keep jewish refugees out or get rid of them by shipping them to Palestine.
Correct in all points. The main goal was still to buy time though. It didn’t work as a buffer zone because the defensive works were not ready by Barbarossa, but the extra year gave the USSR invaluable time to prepare its industry and military.
Edit: also regarding your last point, I always hated how Schindler’s List ends with a Soviet soldier telling the Jews to not go east because people hate them there. It’s such revisionism.
Jewish people were treated better in the USSR than in any western country. The Soviets were the only ones with actual laws against anti-semitism at the time. They were the only ones who had explicitly and openly condemned all forms of racism and reflected this in law and in practice in their society with harsh punishments for anti-semitic or racist attacks.
Meanwhile in the west many were literal Nazi sympathizers and of those that weren’t quite a few either wanted to keep jewish refugees out or get rid of them by shipping them to Palestine.