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>"Regardless of Orwell's fuming about freedom of the press, pro-Soviet English intellectual fashions, and such - for the WWII-era British government, not "rocki
by nickff 3y ago
>"Regardless of Orwell's fuming about freedom of the press, pro-Soviet English intellectual fashions, and such - for the WWII-era British government, not "rocking the boat" with Stalin, when "his" USSR was still critical to winning the war with a less-horrific British body count, would be a "d'oh, obviously" policy."
On the other hand, we shouldn't forget that Stalin's USSR was also critical to starting the war as well.
- bell-cot 3y agoIn the smaller details, yes. But if the USSR of 1939 had been magically replaced with a idyllic nation of unarmed pacifists, Hitler's Germany would just as certainly have started the war.