Insulting the soldiers who lost their lives fighting Nazis on Victory Day. As you expect from reddit the comments are full of people cheering for them.

    • xxcvzvcxxOP
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      Nooo you see Soviets made a strategic non-aggression pact with Nazis instead of immediately going to war with them, this means they were forever allies and basically Nazis themselves! Please ignore

      • 1933 - UK, France, Italy - the four powers pact
      • 1934 - Poland - Hitler - Pilsudski pact
      • 1935 - UK - Anglo-German Naval Agreement
      • 1936 - Japan - Anti-Comintern Pact
      • 1938 September - UK - German-British non aggression Pact
      • 1938 December - France - German-French non-aggression Pact
      • 1939 March - Romania German-Romanian Economical Treaty
      • 1939 March - Lithuania - non-aggression Pact
      • 1939 May - Italy - Pact of Steel (Friendship and Alliance)
      • 1939 May - Denmark - non-aggression Pact
      • 1939 June - Estonia - non-aggression Pact
      • 1939 July - Latvia - non-aggression Pact
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      To hijack this thread with a question. I have heard explanation on how Munich was attempt to make Hitler go East and crush the USSR. But how does that account for the fact that when Hitler indeed went East the French and Britons declared war on Germany?

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        Because at that point Germany had signed the treaty with the Soviet Union

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        They did almost nothing for 8 months except some proxy fighting. Also, they planned to actually attack… USSR, in june or july 1940. They even started force relocation for this, but were thwarted when Germany attacked France. Read about Operation Pike, even on wiki.

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        Stalin made non-aggression pack with Hitler to buy time for Russian military production under the Russian semi-industrialized economy. The non-aggression pack shows that Western European empires cannot force Soviet Union to bear all the war efforts so they end the free riding and follow Stalin to stop Fascism.