*The joint Soviet-Nazi invasion of Poland
I have a compulsion to remind people that the Soviets weren’t the good guys in WWII that they loved to pretend to be.
They were the good guys, but just because the really bad guys went back on the deal to be bad guys together.
One villain betraying another doesn’t suddenly make one villain a hero.
Are you really a good guy just because the bad guy you were dealing with turned out to be a bad guy?
Don’t whitewash history.
Nazi Germany and the USSR made plans to invade and partition Poland, and then they followed through on those plans.
Stalin and Hitler were allies right up until Hitler backstabbed Stalin with Operation Barbarossa.
Edit: the title has been updated since I posted this
I certainly wasn’t trying to whitewash history. Rather the contrary, since Soviet forces engaging Polish forces during the Nazi invasion is rarely discussed.
If you’re interested in accurately portraying historical events, I’d change the last part of the title to:
during the coordinated invasion of Poland by the USSR and Nazi Germany, 1939
Because it was most definitely coordinated at a strategic level.
The Soviet and Nazi invasion
Idk, that seems pretty clear that the soviets and nazis were working jointly. I don’t think the title would be improved by adding extremely specific language that changes the meaning very little.
The title has been updated since I posted the comment you’re replying to
Lmao oh, thank you. I forget Lemmy doesn’t indicate edits particularly well
It sounds like they invaded at the same time, not together, and a “joint invasion” clarification in the title would be great.
I was going to find an example of a country being invaded by two major powers that weren’t working together and yeah, there’s not very many, but its a churlish point to make that misses the actual argument. I do see your point. Calling it ‘whitewashing’ is a bit of a stretch, but I can see how it underemphasizes the degree to which the nazis / soviets were coordinating.
This is a bad ass cool looking photo.
