Posted on 06/22/2007 3:56:26 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
I believe this is also the day the French fries surrendered a year earlier.
It’s kind of a shame we didn’t let the Germans deliver the k/o blow to the commies before we took them out.
My favorite part of Marxism - fascists killing communists and vice-versa.
it’s because the commies won. They overthrew the ‘best’ part of the german wehrmacht.
Then patton came to sweep away the rest.
Stalin would have made a parking lot out of europe if it wasn’t for D-Day.
Euphemism for carving up Poland and each taking half.
One of Hitler’s reasons for attacking the Soviets when did was precisely because of fear of the growing Anglo-American threat.
The communists across the globe must have had their heads spinning. First the Soviets hate the Nazis, then they’re friends, then they hate them again and then love the western democracies.
True but a cross channel invasion of Hitler’s empire would have been a bit more tricky if he’d conquered the USSR.
A young congressman at the time named Harry Truman said “We should arm whichever side seems to be losing, and let them kill each other off..”
That and a few other bits of territory.
Evidently, ol’ Harry was a lot smarter congressman than he was a president.
after all, in 1941 the Nazis were Stalin's long time allies...
Our American commies like Pete Seeger did some major-league spinning.
Well if you consider two years to be a long time.
Pete Seeger:
“Franklin D., listen to me,
You ain’t a-gonna send me ‘cross the sea,
‘Cross the sea, ‘cross the sea, You ain’t a-gonna send me ‘cross the sea.
You may say it’s for defense,
But that kinda talk that I’m against.
I’m against, I’m against,
That kinda talk ain’t got no sense.
Lafayette, we are here, we’re gonna stay right over here...”
The German-Soviet cooperation went on a lot longer than the 2 years of the Hitler-Stalin pact. When we go back to 1917, it was Imperial Germany which brought Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power, in order to take out Tsarist Russia as an enemy. During the Weimar era it was the Soviet Union which secretly jointly cooperated, trained and held exercises with the German Army. A lot of German and Soviet officers and generals, who in WW2 would be enemies, were partners during the late 1920’s and early 1930’s.
Also after 1933 the Soviet Union was a key economic partner of the German Reich. The Soviets delivered tons of essential ressources for the German military built-up.
It was more or less since 1936, with the Spanish civil war, when the relations between them dropped to the bottom and became real (not just propgandistically) hostility.
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