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[-] VoteNixon2016 30 points 3 weeks ago

Good thing Hitler just wanted to annex the Sudetenland and not colonize it, he would have been a pretty bad guy otherwise

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

No Hitler did settler colonialism. In Europe. He threw the natives in ovens and stole their house.

That's why Hitler is regarded as the ultimate evil. He did settler colonialism against white people.

[-] VoteNixon2016 25 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, that's why Hitler is regarded as the ultimate evil, the settler colonialism.

The Anschluss and the annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia were both justified under the guise of protecting and uniting ethnic Germans in the regions, Hitler even said he'd totally, for realsies stop after that. But I wouldn't expect .ml'ers to care about anything that happened before the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact broke down.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Like this?

A few weeks after the Wehrmacht’s March 1939 occupation of all Czechoslovakia, and despite increasing doubts about Western intentions, Stalin again approached the Franco-British powers.

On 16 April 1939, he submitted a formal proposition: a three-power military pact with the obvious goal of deterring Nazi aggression.

Stalin’s diplomatic proposal mirrored the agreement in place prior to the First World War, in which Britain, France and Russia were bound together in an alliance directed against the German and Austro-Hungarian empires.

Had Stalin’s approach been accepted, it can only have changed the course of history – as such a union would have ensured, right from the beginning in the event of a conflict, that Hitler faced a nightmare war on two fronts.

This final Soviet offer of alliance with the West was snubbed, however, with the British in particular treating Moscow with disregard. Strong anti-Bolshevik feelings were widespread amongst the conservatives in the British government, and with Chamberlain himself.

[-] VoteNixon2016 14 points 3 weeks ago

Buddy, I'm not going to defend the actions of Western powers during the build up to World War II. I agree with you that an antifascist alliance should have been formed and could have stopped Hitler much sooner and with much less death.

I do find it interesting that the article you provided makes no mention of Soviet annexation (Imperialism? Colonization? Liberation? Let me know which hyperspecific term for invading another country I should use) of the pre-Brest-Litovsk territory they lost.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

I agree with you that an antifascist alliance should have been formed and could have stopped Hitler much sooner and with much less death.

You seemed to imply that the USSR gladly made a peace treaty with Hitler at the onset instead of trying to gather allies to fight Hitler first.

Let me know which hyperspecific term for invading another country

Imperialism. Unless the USSR expelled or tried to exterminate the citizens of conquered territory, that would be settler colonialism.

For more information on the terminology and why it's important: On 'Arab Colonialism'

[-] VoteNixon2016 10 points 3 weeks ago

I'll give that a watch, thanks.

I took issue in the first place because you seemed to imply that what Russia is doing in Ukraine is okay because it's specifically annexation, and not some other flavor of invading and taking over someone's country, and I'm opposed to that regardless of what one calls it.

[-] frezik 3 points 3 weeks ago

Unlike the Soviets and Kaliningrad. Wait...

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