A little bit of an understatement. Germany and Russia coordinated their invasion of Poland. Germany invaded from the sea and the Russians moved in by train to Warsaw. Hitler and Stalin were allies during the start of the war.
The Soviets also supplied Germany needed raw materials like oil.
The last trains actually crossed the border just before Barbarossa in June 41’.
Back in the 1960’s I was in high school. I used a litmus test on history books to see if they could be trusted. Most of the books gave cover to Stalin by failing to mention that he and Hitler were allies during the start of WWII.
Another litmus test was to see if they mentioned temporal relationship between Stalin’s death and the conclusion of hostilities in the Korean War. The left was willing to concede that Mao was propping up the North Koreans, but they gave a pass to Stalin.
My father said that Americans were quite aware that Stalin had been allied with Hitler at the beginning of the war. Hitler turned on Stalin, or the Axis would have continued.
When the U.S. decided to send supplies to the Russians under the lend-lease program, the government actually engaged in outright propaganda to sell Stalin as a grandfatherly type of figure in order to justify the alignment. This propaganda program fit well with the leftist advisors to FDR, such as Alger Hiss, who were actually Soviet agents at the time.
When Senator Joe McCarthy uncovered Soviet spies embedded in the U.S. government, he had to overcome the previous propaganda and the exuberance of having the Soviets as “allies” at the close of the war.
The movie Patton was one of the few to faithfully highlight the uneasy alliance between the west and the Soviets.
Stalin was never mentioned as a belligerent on the MASH television series. The only time Stalin was mentioned was to belittle Frank, the straw man weak conservative.
The reality was that China was not a power house and supplied only part of the support needed by the North. American troops faced a lot of supplies from the WWII lend-lease program which was handed over to the North Koreans by the Russians.
When Stalin died the Russian people insisted that more attention be given to food for Russians and less support for the war effort. Thus, Stalin died in March 1953. The treaty ending hostilities was signed in July of 1953.
Stalin stabbed Poland in the back three weeks after Germany had done the heavy lifting.
>>Germany and Russia coordinated their invasion of Poland. Germany invaded from the sea
The German invasion of Poland was overwhelmingly by land. Baltic naval operations were at most tertiary, not even secondary to the effort by land.
A leftist on my Facebook group posted an article praising Bolsheviks Bernie & Reichhhh meeting.
When I replied they were both leftwing communists, he retorted that there’s a big difference between socialism & communism.
Of course, I pointed out both “brands” are leftistism and have same goals and detailed history that supported the obvious.
Not surprising, he melted like a typical snowflake.
The point of this rambling is leftists (aka “Marxocrats”) are so far gone in their brainwashing, that CW2 is inevitable.