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The West hoped that Hitler would attack the Soviet Union? That would mean the West hoped that Hitler would attack Poland as that was the only possible way that
by Aloisius 7y ago
The West hoped that Hitler would attack the Soviet Union?
That would mean the West hoped that Hitler would attack Poland as that was the only possible way that Hitler could even get to the Soviet Union at the time the pact was negotiated.
The Soviet Union wanted to modernize and expand. Hitler gave them that opportunity. If anything, it was the Soviet Union that hoped that Hitler and Western Europe would duke it out thereby weakening all their enemies.
- kvark 7y agoPragmatically, every party knew the massacre was about to start and tried to duke it out.