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"At a fairly critical time in the war." Not really. They mostly started coming after the USSR stopped the Nazis in 1942. "complicated history of the USSR and
by gdy 3y ago
"At a fairly critical time in the war."
Not really. They mostly started coming after the USSR stopped the Nazis in 1942.
"complicated history of the USSR and the Nazis"
Too bad your school forgets to mention the Munich agreement between the Nazis and the West, and all the efforts of the USSR to forge an anti-Nazi pact with the Great Britain and France. All of which happenned before the M-R pact.
- dragonwriter 3y agoMunich was bad and is to this day a touchstone of failure of character in the West (indeed, one of the ways those proposing capitulation to Russian purported annexation of parts of Ukraine as the cost of peace are mocked is comparing their stand to Munich). But its not like after Munich, Britain and France invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia while Hitler took the Sudetenland, so bad as it is, it doesn’t compare to the Molotov-Ribbentropp pact.
- gdy 3y ago"invaded the rest" The USSR took back what your lovely European hyena bit off from the corpse of the Russian Empire 20 years before that [0][1]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Boundary_and_Friendship_Treaty https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Bounda...
- soco 3y agoThe European hyena bit off what the Russian Empire hyena bit off 30 years earlier. Which the European hyena bit off 15 years earlier. Which the Russian Empire hyena bit off 20 years earlier. Which the... isn't it convenient to cherry pick one point in history and base all your truth on it?
- gdy 3y agoYou've made this up. Nothing relevant happened in the years you listed. In fact, for a hundred of years.
- gdy 3y ago"isn't it convenient to cherry pick one point in history and base all your truth on it?" That's exactly the problem with cherry-picking Molotov-Rippentrop pact. And btw no one of significance has ever called Russian Empire a hyena. Unlike Poland.
- gdy 3y ago"its not like after Munich, Britain and France invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia" But Poland and Hungary did [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia_(1938%E2%80%931945) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia_(...