People are posting wiki articles with non existent “sources” as proof the soviets were going to join the axis and helped the Nazis.
People are posting wiki articles with non existent “sources” as proof the soviets were going to join the axis and helped the Nazis.
During the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1921 – Polish revanchists trying to remake the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – Poland annexed parts of Ukraine and Belarus that it had controlled prior to 1772. The Peace of Riga formalized this. The Soviet Union took back these territories in the 1939 “invasion.”
i was always critical of the ussr invading poland alongside germany. at least there’s more nuance to it.
There’s also the issue of not letting the nazis take undefended territory. Western pacifism has somehow brainwashed people into thinking that it would’ve been more ethical for the USSR to cede all these territories to the nazis in order to keep the “moral highground”, and not be called an aggressor. Years of the nazi’s scorched earth policy in eastern europe show how wrong that is.