Would Nazi Germany have invaded Poland absent the Nazi-Russia non-aggression pact? Did not Russia participate in the invasion of Poland which started World War Two?
The Nazis betrayed their Russian allies and the West were fools for supporting Russia instead of letting the two dictatorships bleed each other white. The West compounded the injustice by letting Russia seize half of Europe after the war.
The reason that Stalin didn’t sign with Britain and France was they would not agree to allow Stalin to place his soldiers in Poland. Poles understood what that meant.
We weren’t very good about supporting Russia. We shipped as little as we could up to Murmansk.
In the twenties, when Germany was barred by treaty from re-arming, German arms makers and generals started arms factories in the USSR. Quid pro quo, cover, workers, material, in exchange for engineering know how and modern factories.
By the time WWII started, Germany had killed a few thousand handicapped people and many fewer political enemies.
The Soviet Union already had killed roughly seven million plus through food confiscation and famine, the gulag, execution and torture.
Would an anti-semitic fascist expansionist party have risen in Germany as a reaction to defeat in WWI alone, without the Soviet threat?