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Russia Must Own Up to Stalin-Hitler Romance
Moscow Times ^ | Sep 18, 2018 | Leonid Bershidsky

Posted on 09/23/2018 11:56:32 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

An Associated Press correction last week and reactions to it show that the question of whether the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were allies at the dawn of World War II remains a hot-button issue for many Russians and eastern Europeans.

The correction was issued to an article about a Holocaust commemoration in the Ukrainian city of Lviv that originally called the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany “former allies.”

The AP concluded that the pact reached on Aug. 23, 1939 by the German and Soviet foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov didn’t constitute a formal alliance, thus the correction.

The correction followed letters from the Russian Foreign Ministry sent both to the AP and to other media outlets that printed the story, saying that the phrase “former allies” was a “vivid example of attempts to rewrite history” and that the U.S.S.R., had never been the ally of Hitler’s Germany.

This isn’t how history is seen by many people in Poland and the Baltics.

“The Soviet-Nazi alliance began World War II,” tweeted Jerdzej Tomczak, a member of the Polish delegation to NATO.

“An annual reminder of Russian denial at its peak,” former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves posted.

In Poland and the Baltics, the continuity between Soviet and Putinist rationalizations for working with Hitler represents an unbroken line of aggressive, imperialist Russian thinking. Along with Russia’s depredations in its immediate neighborhood, the Moscow version of history is seen as proof that Russia still covets the influence on eastern Europe and the Baltic territories that it was forced to give up when the Soviet Union fell apart.

An unconditional admission of Stalin’s guilt (not a “mistake,” as Putin once termed it) in carving up eastern Europe with Hitler would be a powerful move on the part of a Russian leader...

(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 1939; 193908; 19390823; associatedpress; baltics; estonia; germany; hitler; holocaust; jerdzejtomczak; joachimvonribbentrop; lviv; molotov; molotovribbentrop; nato; nazisovietpact; poland; putin; russia; russians; stalin; theholocaust; toomashendrikilves; ukraine; vonribbentrop; vyacheslavmolotov
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Yeah, and Germany is in a similar situation with Britain regarding its time as Nazi Germany or, heck, even its time as Imperial Germany, and it’s even going as far as to let Muslims overrun it, and even pretty much beg the Russians for oil via the pipeline.


41 posted on 09/24/2018 7:02:38 PM PDT by otness_e
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To: dfwgator

Well, to be fair, Rockefeller and Wilson apparently had some involvement in the funding.

And yeah, he definitely ended Russia’s involvement. Too bad he made things even WORSE for everyone. Personally, had I been one of the German high command members, I’d probably say “no deal” and put a bullet into his head due to realizing exactly HOW much of a threat he actually was.


42 posted on 09/24/2018 7:05:24 PM PDT by otness_e
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To: jmacusa

quote-chummy Old Joe was with Old Adolph at first..

Very true..you know after ole stalin got his half of Poland in 39, that more Jews were his citizens than anyone else’s, and ole stalin let his buddy have most for the ovens.Over 50% that hitler killed were supposedly under stalin’s rule and so-called protection...Ed..


43 posted on 09/30/2018 9:49:04 PM PDT by hubel458
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To: otness_e

quote-beg the Russians for oil via the pipeline.

Crazy seeing as how GER, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, etc has as much of oil and gas shale, as western US, a little fracking and putin and his mafia would be done.. Ed


44 posted on 09/30/2018 9:56:03 PM PDT by hubel458
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