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> At the same time you have the Soviets, who are now often seen as the second biggest evil, but this was not at all clear back then. Lets remember that the Sovi
by burntoutfire 5y ago
> At the same time you have the Soviets, who are now often seen as the second biggest evil, but this was not at all clear back then. Lets remember that the Soviets had just conducted the Katyn massacre for example. The Soviets had invaded Finland and all the Baltic states. And their treatment of those places was far harsher then the Nazis were in Norway. 10000s of people from the Baltic states were transported to the Gulags at that time and most were never seen again.
You forgot Soviet invasion of Poland and shipping of roughly half a million of Polish citizens to Gulags. In the 18 months between the attack and the subsequent "amnesty" in 1941 (Stalin joining the Allies after being attacked by Hitler), already 50k of them were dead from cold, hunger, tortures and executions.