dsmaster7173@lemmy.world to 195@lemmy.world · 2 years agoimportant rulepostlemmy.worldimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10cross-posted to: 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
arrow-up14arrow-down1imageimportant rulepostlemmy.worlddsmaster7173@lemmy.world to 195@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square19fedilinkcross-posted to: 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
minus-squareRedMarsRepublic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years 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-up1·2 years 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 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.