right up to that little misunderstanding called Operation Barbarossa... right???There was another Nazi Germany that wasn’t Adolf’s?Vladimir Putin says there was nothing wrong with Soviet Union’s pact with Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany
Ummmmmmmm, Vlad? Vlad, ol’ buddy, ol’ pal, ol’ friend of mine. You ARE aware Nazi Germany invaded The Soviet Union aren’t you? Or were you educated in a government run school in America?
Putin dreams of reviving the empire of evil
Putin is as Dumb as NY - D Cong Charlie Rangel.
One might guess that the people of Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, etc., would have a different take on this.
Not that Mr. Putin could possibly care.
Austrians and Russians had been doing that for Years!
The Soviet Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVZjyyAE-78
He offered to split the Ukraine with Poland. The Poles turned him down. Perhaps he has an offer for the Germans that would resolve that issue.
That must be why the Soviet prosecutor at Nuremberg went nuts when von Weizsacker revealed the existence of the Secret Protocol to the Pact. You know, the one that cynically carved up Eastern Europe.
Stalin cut his deal with Hitler because he believed Britain and France wanted to defeat Germany at the cost of copious amounts of Russian blood. He figured that the European states would exhaust themselves and he would clean up in Europe at little cost. But the French folded and Stalin was left to face Hitler with an army that wasn’t ready because most of the officers had been purged.
And so it happened that Stalin defeated Hitler...at the cost of copious amounts of Russian blood. Yeah, Vlad. It was a heck of a deal.
Well, I only read this portion of it but he seems to say that that was a common thing to do at the time and should be viewed through that lens.
Not a firm assessment, however, since I haven’t time to read more of it right now. I don’t trust headlines that make conclusions for me.
The Soviets wanted the Non-Aggression Pact for one reason....to have the War in the West, so the German, French and British armies would be bled dry, to allow the Soviets to swoop in from the East.
It actually was a blessing in disguise that France fell as quick as it did.
Vladimir also said the the fall of the Soviet Union was the worst disaster of the Twentieth Century.
That’s the version they taught at KGB school.
Comrade Putin is fixin to do it again, This time Obummer will play the part of Chamberlin ‘No Nukes, Iran’.
right up to that little misunderstanding called Operation Barbarossa... right???Hey Vlad, was there anything wrong with mother russia’s genocide of the Ukrainian people in 1933? Now that’s a butchery that can’t be shared by any other country, 7 million deaths by Stalin, who’s the bitch now Vlad?
Maybe Putin isn’t referring to Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union
Just 2 communist countries trying to put one over on each other.
From Russia’s point of view, it likely wasn’t.
It was a non-aggression pact, and it returned lands to Russia that they had lost during and after WW1, that had been Russian land since the late 1700’s.
(Land that had been won and lost several times over Centuries).
It was the Germans that broke the pact, not the Russians. Though Stalin was warned, numerous times, that Germany was about to attack, he refused to believe it, because he had Hitler’s personal assurances.
Isn’t that Communist Party USA and Pete Seeger’s position???