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[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

I'm really struggling to follow some of this. Are you saying the Soviets didn't need to fight Germany and didn't need to take as much time as they could manage to prepare to do so?

[-] mortakhal@feddit.nl 2 points 3 weeks ago

The problem is that they were allies of Germany until Germany attacked them :) and they also wanted to conquer all of Europe, not just preparing to defend their own territory

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

I chose to avoid most of the bait so far, even with those cloying :)s that you like adding so much, but this one is too disgusting. It's historical revisionism pure and simple that they were ever "allies" with Germany. They had a treaty to try and stall German invasion, but they never imagined things would go otherwise than one party defeating the other (though they did underestimate how soon the Germans would attack).

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