If not for Stalin allying with Hitler, WWII might have been avoided.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed 8/23/39 and held until 6/22/41.
While Germany thought it didn't have to worry about it's eastern border, it took Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France, as well as half of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia. At the same time, Stalin took half of Finland, half of Poland, and Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Hitler didn't invade the USSR till he thought he'd won the rest of Europe.
Stalin's duplicity caused WWII and brought disaster to his own country and the rest of Europe. Instead of admiring Stalin for doing so much fighting in WWII, liberals should despise him for making WWII (and the resulting holocaust) happen. |
