Russia should own up to Stalin-Hitler friendship

[TomSea]

Russia should own up to Stalin-Hitler friendship



On Sept. 17, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland. Germany, which had done the same in the western part of the country two weeks earlier, acquiesced under the terms of a notorious neutrality agreement between Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin that divided parts of eastern Europe into Nazi and Communist spheres of influence.

That’s just history in most of the world, but it’s contemporary politics in some of it. An Associated Press correction last week and reactions to it show that the question of whether the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were allies at the dawn of World War II remains a hot-button issue for many Russians and eastern Europeans.

The correction was issued to an article about a Holocaust commemoration in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv that originally called the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany “former allies.” It noted that the two countries signed a non-aggression pact in 1939 that “paved the way for them to carve up Poland and for the Soviet Union to take the Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.”

Read more at: https://112.international/opinion/russia-should-own-up-to-stalin-hitler-friendship-32283.html

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The Soviets and the Nazis were allied together until just before the German Invasion. A few weeks before, Germany started making the same rumblings they had about Poland about Soviet aggression and troop buildups. Stalin should have seen the hand-writing on the wall. US Communists and Nazis were allied together in the Isolation movement. The Commies did an about face after the Invasion, losing many of their pacifist followers. The Nazis were rounded up.

I am listening to radio reports from Dec 7-8, 1941. It's interesting to hear the rumors of the times. There is some speculation that Germany had bombed Pearl Harbor. Japs using Stukas in a suicide raid on Pearl Harbor. A Jap carrier being sunk. The Bismark spotted in the China Sea. Calls for a blockade of Japan.

[skeeter]

Remember when colluding with Russia back when it was the USSR was considered de rigueur? The AP does.

[TomSea]

22 SEPT 1939: The joint #Nazi-#Soviet parade at Brest-Litovsk, after the two regimes collaborated to crush and dismember #Poland, igniting the Second World War.

[Red Army tanks, German motorcyclists]
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton

They actually had this little parade back then.

Same link, Red Army officers salute swastika at same event.