Who’s saying the Russians did nothing, not me, I acknowledge that Stalin sacrificed millions to win....I am merely pointing out the other side of the story....That the Soviets helped to start the war by giving Hitler their blessing to invade Poland, and also that Stalin’s lack of preparation led to millions dying that didn’t need to, because of his incompetence.
“That the Soviets helped to start the war by giving Hitler their blessing to invade Poland, and also that Stalin’s lack of preparation led to millions dying that didn’t need to, because of his incompetence.”
Note, the Soviets/Russians did far more than just give their “blessings” to Hitler’s NAZI Germany and its invasion of Poland. The Soviets/Russians were key partners with Germany’s efforts to circumvent and violate the terms of the 1918 Armistice which forbade certain military and naval activities by Germany. Soviets/Russians provided German personnel with false Soviet commissions and enlistments, uniforms, weapons, aircraft, and training on Soviet/Russian territories.
The Soviet Union then negotiated an alliance with Hitler’s NAZI Germany with secret provisions for their initiation of the Second Word War (WWII) and dividing their conquered territories in Poland and throughout Eastern and Northern Europe.
The Soviets/Russians then went forth in cooperation with Germany to invade, conquer, and annex Poland to start WWII. The Soviets/Russians then murdered and massacred more than 22,000 of their Polish POW officer corps and civilians. The Soviets/Russians then proceeded to repeat these war crimes with their invasions of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Bessarabia, and Bukovina. Overconfident, Stalin and his Soviets/Russians then plotted to invade and conquer Hitler’s Third Reich as soon as it became bogged down with a protracted invasion of Britain. Those Soviet/Russian plans of conquest and glory fell into shocked ruin when Hitler and his Third Reich beat them to the punch with the most successful invasion of Russia in modern history. Only then did the Soviets/Russians grudgingly enter into a largely one-sided alliance with the Western allies against Germany.
It also should be recognized how the Soviets/Russians may be responsible for upwards of ten percent of all British Commonwealth and American military deaths in WWII when the Soviets/Russians took them out of the German POW camps into the Soviet Union as hostages, slave labor, and for executions.
Competent Poles had Pilsudski-Neirat pact with Germany on mutual military assistance, they denied military alliance with the USSR. Poland’s army lasted only for two weeks against Germany, just like French one. It is sure sign of competence of their leadership.