And where do we place the Hitler Stalin Pact of 1939 and the Russo Japanese Non Agression Pact.
The same place we put the Munich Agreement and the Anglo-German Declaration (”Peace in out time” speech was from this Pact).
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And where do we place the Hitler Stalin Pact of 1939 and the Russo Japanese Non Agression Pact.
The Russians push the simplistic version they were victims, when Stalin already had them internally in a state of war for a decade. they had committed a brutal genocide in Ukraine, and had participated in the invasion of Poland and Finland . How many of their war dead were soldiers being shot by their own government? Reprisals from angry Ukrainians or Belorussians?
As you sow, so shall you reap
But but the Russians are our natural allies../s