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> Plus it did most of the fighting in WWII for the US and UK to defeat Germany (of course nowadays the US and UK flipped it to Germany against Russia). That's
by rcxdude 3y ago
> Plus it did most of the fighting in WWII for the US and UK to defeat Germany (of course nowadays the US and UK flipped it to Germany against Russia).
That's quite a spin on history. The USSR (already an imperialist power) and germany secretly divvied up eastern europe between themselves before Germany started the war, and it was only Germany's betrayal of that deal which led to the USSR actually joining the fight against Germany, with the US and UK finding it a convenient way to wear down a shared foe to provide them with some of their industrial capacity. You make it sound like this was some kind of puppet mastery by the US and UK (which to be clear, are not saints either, but decidedly on the right side in WWII) as opposed to two imperialist powers seeking to conquer others by force fighting amongst themselves.
- hyperparameter 3y agoThat's some spin of the UK side of things. When the USSR was looking in vain for an alliance with France or the UK, France and the UK instead made a pact with Germany, handing Czechoslovakia to Germany. Insofar as the UK and imperialist powers seeking to conquer others by force - Scotland, Ireland, India, Hong Kong and the Opium Wars, Australia, Iraq, Africa from Egypt down to South Africa, I can go on...
- mmmmmmtoes 3y ago[dead]