From the article: "Of course, the start of the war had been shaped by a Nazi-Soviet pact to carve up the lands in between their borders. Then Hitler turned agai

From the article: "Of course, the start of the war had been shaped by a Nazi-Soviet pact to carve up the lands in between their borders. Then Hitler turned against the U.S.S.R." Yes, that has a lot to do with why the Soviet Union's undeniable role in the eventual destruction of the Axis armies doesn't always encourage citizens of other Allied countries. Some of us remember that the Second World War might not have started in Europe (it had already started in Asia, really) if the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact[1] had not been agreed to by Stalin and Hitler. [1] http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005156 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005156