• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    We know, it was a team effort.

    There was also that broken Nazi/Soviet pact and all that carving up of other peoples countries though that was supposed to go the other way.

    And look, another Nazi plot with the Russians.

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      6 days ago

      The Nazis had pacts with literally everyone. The Soviets were one of the last to sign one, because they had spent the proceeding years trying to form an explicitly anti-Nazi pact with the capitalist nations, only to be rebuffed.

      If Chamberlain had listened to Stalin, the war either wouldn’t have happened, or it would have been over much more quickly.

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        The Nazis had pacts with literally everyone.

        Nope. With only with Russia, Axis nations, and a few small countries.

        Stalin literally made a pact with Hitler to participate in the imperialist invasion of Poland.

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        It’s the cutting up other peoples countries part without their say that the bully countries never understand.

        There was also a secret protocol to the pact, which was revealed only after Germany’s defeat in 1945[101] although hints about its provisions had been leaked much earlier, so as to influence Lithuania.[102] According to the protocol, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland were divided into German and Soviet “spheres of influence”.[101] In the north, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia were assigned to the Soviet sphere.[101] Poland was to be partitioned in the event of its “political rearrangement”: the areas east of the PisaNarewVistula, and San rivers would go to the Soviet Union, and Germany would occupy the west.[101] Lithuania, which was adjacent to East Prussia, was assigned to the German sphere of influence, but a second secret protocol, agreed to in September 1939, reassigned Lithuania to the Soviet Union.[103] According to the protocol, Lithuania would be granted its historical capital, Vilniuswhich was part of Poland during the interwar period. Another clause stipulated that Germany would not interfere with the Soviet Union’s actions towards Bessarabia, which was then part of Romania.[101] As a result, Bessarabia as well as the Northern Bukovina and Hertsa regions were occupied by the Soviets and integrated into the Soviet Union.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact