• weirdwallace75@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Poland was not in a good place politically, but it wasn’t Fascist, and the USSR didn’t just make a friendship pact with the Nazis, it went to war alongside them. Stalin was an opportunist who made a dumb decision, not a principled anti-Fascist.

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      1 year ago

      https://www.jstor.org/stable/1849240

      Poland also did the exact same thing as the USSR did when it allied with Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia. I don’t deny that Stalin was an opportunist but nonetheless, despite its failures it was the USSR which did the lion’s share of warfare against the Nazis and ended the holocaust. As for not taking part against Japan, they did invade Manchuria and would have turned their attention on the rest of Japan had they not surrendered to the USA (indeed the USSR entering the war against them was the biggest reason why they surrendered).

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        1 year ago

        (indeed the USSR entering the war against them was the biggest reason why they surrendered).

        No, it wasn’t. This is straight-up Soviet propaganda.