1 posted on
08/15/2019 5:02:54 AM PDT by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Funny. Russia grabbed eastern Poland and Germany western Poland. But only Germany was declared war against.
2 posted on
08/15/2019 5:07:18 AM PDT by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Kaslin
Western democracies of the 1930s had counted on the huge resources of Communist Russia, and its hostility to the Nazis, to serve as a brake on Adolf Hitler's Western ambitions.Did not some in the West also look to the Nazis to keep the Reds in check?
3 posted on
08/15/2019 5:14:03 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; LS; Impy; DarthVader
Like a wise man once said: “National Socialism vs. International Socialism”.
Two sides of the same coin.
They should have been left alone and literally wiped each other off the face of the Earth. Think how much better everything would be today.
6 posted on
08/15/2019 5:44:28 AM PDT by
GOPsterinMA
(I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
To: Kaslin
Russia has broken every treaty they ever signed except this one; Germany broke it first.
To: Kaslin
“The incompatibility between communism and Nazism was considered by all to be existential — and permanent.”
Same system, same red flags, different crew and national quirks at the top.
8 posted on
08/15/2019 5:49:02 AM PDT by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: Kaslin
The incompatibility between communism and Nazism was considered by all to be existential — and permanent.....Wrongly so. They had much more in common than differences. Different modes of totalitarianism. So why did Hitler attack and invade the USSR? Because he was insane.
17 posted on
08/15/2019 7:11:29 AM PDT by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: Kaslin
The incompatibility between communism and Nazism was considered by all to be existential — and permanent.
Two sides of the same coin.
19 posted on
08/15/2019 7:25:05 AM PDT by
Don Corleone
(Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
To: Kaslin
A bad deal for whom?
It gave Hitler and The Reich the use of a free hand against the Western European democracies by neutering any threat from the USSR until such time as Germany decided to turn eastward. It also gave Stalin over a year to beef up the Red Army, which had been decimated by his purges throughout the thirties.
24 posted on
08/15/2019 7:46:01 AM PDT by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: Kaslin
Only thing about the cartoon, is I think Hitler would have been more appropriate as the "bride".
32 posted on
08/15/2019 9:06:08 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Kaslin
Add this all up, and in some sense, World War II really started on Aug. 23, 1939, 80 years ago this summer.
WWII was guaranteed with the signing of the Draconian Treaty of Versailles in 1918.
50 posted on
08/15/2019 10:47:54 AM PDT by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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