Was it the same Stalin who allowed Germans to train their troops in evasion of the post-WWI peace treaty? They trained their panzer troops over there https://e

Was it the same Stalin who allowed Germans to train their troops in evasion of the post-WWI peace treaty? They trained their panzer troops over there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_tank_school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_tank_school and their fighter pilots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipetsk_fighter-pilot_school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipetsk_fighter-pilot_school and their chemical warfare teams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomka_gas_test_site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomka_gas_test_site I guess it was the same Stalin who signed a pact with the Nazi Germany to partition Poland and invaded Poland on 17 Sep 1939. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac... It must have also been the same Stalin who ordered the extermination of 22,000 of the educated part of the Polish society and then blamed the Germans for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre I guess he wanted to outdo the Germans, who had a special plan for the extermination of Polish intellectuals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_AB-Aktion_in_Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_AB-Aktion_in_Poland I don't know about you, but I don't think anybody wanted to listen to Stalin. He wasn't exactly a reliable interlocutor.