[donmeaker]

The bolsheviks were put into power by the Kaiser’s Germany, to include using German soldiers to fight against the White Russians.

The Weimar republic had German officers train in tank tactics in USSR. Hitler stopped that program, because he intended to have the tank training take place in Germany as he ignored the Versailles treaty.

Hitler and Stalin attacked Poland and Finland as allies.

Fortunately the Red Army’s relative incompetence in attacks on Finland, made Hitler drool. Churchill’s contacts with the Nazis in Portugal appeased Hitler, and rather than a hard fight with Britain over the sea lanes, he chose what he was sure would be an easier fight against Stalin.

[Cronos]

"put into power by the Kaiser" is a bit of an exaggeration -- the Kaiser did see the Bolsheviks as causing chaos enough to disintegrate Russia, but the Bolshies did their own killing way to power

it would have made sense in the 1917-1919 period to support a crazy movement like the Bolshies which you would think would die out against a movement like the White Russians of Denikin etc. who said basically "the Russian Empire must be restored and expanded" -- which the Germans feared.

no one thought the Bolshies would survive and worse, spread...

hindsight is always 20-20...