Right after the signing of the treaty US professors and activists were all gooey eyed over Adolf and Stalin, both. Domestic commies were instructed (yes, instructed — USSR docs came out after the wall fell proving this) to speak nicely about Adolf.
Then, Germany invaded Russia. Oopsie. Now, new instructions were out to domestic commies to attack Nazis at every opportunity.
The point is, domestic political forces were owned by foreign powers.
> Then, Germany invaded Russia. Oopsie. Now, new instructions were out to domestic commies to attack Nazis at every opportunity. <
Yes, indeed. And here’s a fun fact. The American commies were told to call the Nazis “fascists”, and not Nazis. The same rule applied in Soviet press.
And that’s because “Nazi” is the German abbreviation for “National Socialist German Workers Party”.
Can’t have the rubes realize that the Nazis are Socialists!