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minus-squareweirdwallace75@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoThe USSR only fought the Nazis, and then only after allying with them.
minus-squareRedMarsRepublic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoThe west also did a ton of non-aggression pacts and friendship pacts with the Nazis. Also; Poland was fascist at the time too.
minus-squareweirdwallace75@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoPoland 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.
The USSR only fought the Nazis, and then only after allying with them.
The west also did a ton of non-aggression pacts and friendship pacts with the Nazis. Also; Poland was fascist at the time too.
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.