“I don’t think you have a good grasp of Soviets or capitalism”
I don’t think you have a good grasp of what I was saying. If the Soviets didn’t willingly accept aid from the Big, Bad Capitalists, eating much of it up within the party before it got to the people, I’ll eat my hat. See Orwell(an honest socialist)’s version of it in “Animal Farm”.
“May I remind you, that the Nazis allies did attack one of our naval bases.”
Not that it doesn’t matter, but if we went to war with everyone who ever did us any harm, we would have had a lot more wars. The point is, the Nazis posed no existential threat. You know, nothing to justify total war, with massive arms build-up, drafts, and all that. Which is what war must have been, if anything. It would have been silly to go one-foot-in/one-foot-out.
Yes, but that doesn't make the Soviets capitalists, it makes those capitalists stupid.
After all, it was Lenin himself who said, ""The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." Sometimes, I believe he was too right.