[Colonel_Flagg]

“And yet much of the left insisted on approaching the war in just that fashion, and had Hitler not attacked Stalin, it might have remained stuck there.”

Events in the United Stats such as the Communist-led North American Aviation strike of 1941 lend credence to this argument. It is also true that prior to the German invasion of the USSR, the British Communist Party philosophically opposed its own government's war effort due to the Nazi-Soviet Pact being in place.

[PapaBear3625]

Events in the United Stats such as the Communist-led North American Aviation strike of 1941 lend credence to this argument. It is also true that prior to the German invasion of the USSR, the British Communist Party philosophically opposed its own government's war effort due to the Nazi-Soviet Pact being in place.

I would imagine that part of the deal was that the USSR would use its control over the various Communist organizations in the US, UK, and Europe to prevent effective opposition to Germany. It may be why France folded so quickly -- they had lots of Communists.