‘At the opening of the exhibition earlier this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke of Britain and France’s treachery: By cozying up to Hitler, they forced the Soviet Union to sign a deal with the Nazis to ensure its own security, he said.”
Well, I can’t disagree much with that. All the countries of Europe (including those in Eastern Europe) were jockeying around for position in 1938-1939.
Putin is Stalin....
The American left adores Stalin and they will never admit it or may not even know it. FDR gave Stalin the keys to post WWII world.
Actually, while the feeling may have been mutual, the national socialist in Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics did ink the deal to divide Eastern Europe.
Western governments really did not know the extent, but did suspect something bad, and were afraid. There were attempts to try and ascertain what was up.
At the same time, Germany was in part strategically posturing out of fear of the Soviet Union. Hence the effort to ink in a deal for taking the spoils Eastern Europe, even if it was not really the goal.
Stalin was an even more horrific and brutal monster than Lenin, since the death of Lenin in 24.
But hey, why should Stalin worry, when he could get double the returns from FDR than he would get from Adolf, in exchange for an inked in agreement to help us take down Russia’s long time impediment Japan, as long as we would move allied forces out of China. You know... to help provide an easier path for the Russians to help us out and all. And... so that Russia could finally have a path to spread communism into China.
What could possibly go wrong in the future with such a compromise. /S
“Controversial problems [between Germany and Russia] did not, in my opinion, exist anywhere along the line from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and to the Far East. In addition, despite all the divergencies in their views of life, there was one thing common to the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies in the West.”—Julius Schnurre, Nazi trade rep to Russia.
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer. Page 501 in my copy,
Yeah, if they ever do that then take Lenin’s mummified ass and put him ground where his stinking , murderous ideology put millions of others.