• FlowVoid
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    11 months ago

    The Red Army and the Wehrmacht coordinated a combined attack on Poland. Sounds like a military coalition to me.

    For all their faults, the armies of the West never conducted a joint offensive with Nazis. Almost a century later, the West considers its attempts to negotiate with Hitler a complete failure, even a source of shame. Nobody here will defend it.

    But you can always count on Stalinists to shamelessly defend striking a deal with Nazis.

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      11 months ago

      Yes, not subscribing to the idea that the ones who defeated the Nazis are their main allies - and not, you know, the other powers in their military coalition - means I’m a Stalinist.

      Some people are so fucked up in the head, it’s fascinating.

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        11 months ago

        I never said the main allies of the Nazis were the Soviets.

        The Nazis were allied with fascist Italy and imperialist Japan. They were in a brief military coalition with the Soviets, betrayed the Soviets, and were defeated by the Soviets (with some help from their allies in the West).

        At no point were the Western democracies in any sort of military coalition or alliance with Hitler.