Not a word about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, of course. When two criminals fall out with each other after a joint robbery and murder, one ordinarily does not o

Not a word about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, of course. When two criminals fall out with each other after a joint robbery and murder, one ordinarily does not overly mourn the one whom the other shoots in a dispute over the spoils, nor do we call the one shot a hero for surviving the attack and turning on the shooter. Hopefully, one of the good things that will come out of the Russia-Ukraine War is the eternal shattering of the "Ha ha smug Americans, everyone knows that it's the Soviets that beat the Nazis" notion that this article is based on. Setting aside the total complicity of the Soviets in helping the Germans to dismember Poland in 1939 and attack themselves in 1941, without massive American and British aid Moscow would have fallen in 1941 and the Soviets would have sued for peace in 1942.