Lets not forget that the Soviets initially allied with the Nazis.
Meanwhile in Germany, a year earlier....
***Lets not forget that the Soviets initially allied with the Nazis.***
Birds of a feather...
“Controversial problems [between Germany and Russia] did not, in my opinion, exist anywhere along the line from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and to the Far East. In addition, despite all the divergencies in their views of life, there was one thing common to the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies in the West.”—Julius Schnurre, Nazi trade rep to Russia.
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer. Page 501 in my copy,