This is misleading, the popular front started much more early. And the Soviet Union tried to ally with France and Britain before the war. "Fiasco: The Anglo-F

This is misleading, the popular front started much more early. And the Soviet Union tried to ally with France and Britain before the war. "Fiasco: The Anglo-Franco-Soviet Alliance That Never Was and the Unpublished British White Paper, 1939–1940" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07075332.2018.1458043?journalCode=rinh20 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07075332.2018.14... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_front https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_front