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minus-squareInvertedParallax@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·11 days agoInteresting parallel: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-soviet-pact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact?Secret_Protocol Russians loved the nazis, and agreed to split Europe with them too! But then again, they’d been genociding jews, Ukrainians and everyone else for centuries by then, I suppose they saw kindred spirits.
minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·edit-211 days agoRussia contacted Britain and France to fight the Nazis. Britain and France refused to fight Hitler. Thus the Russians made a peace pact to have time to prepare for an attack. A big thing people often like to leave out.
minus-squareInvertedParallax@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-211 days agoThe peace treaty was for 10 years. And they made that treaty so they could partition Poland and invade and brutalize Finland, no other reason. The secret protocol was very clear.
minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·11 days agoWhy are you ignoring the Russian invitation to fight Hitler?
Interesting parallel:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-soviet-pact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact?Secret_Protocol
Russians loved the nazis, and agreed to split Europe with them too!
But then again, they’d been genociding jews, Ukrainians and everyone else for centuries by then, I suppose they saw kindred spirits.
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Russia contacted Britain and France to fight the Nazis. Britain and France refused to fight Hitler. Thus the Russians made a peace pact to have time to prepare for an attack.
A big thing people often like to leave out.
The peace treaty was for 10 years.
And they made that treaty so they could partition Poland and invade and brutalize Finland, no other reason.
The secret protocol was very clear.
Why are you ignoring the Russian invitation to fight Hitler?