IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to Europe@lemmy.ml · 7 days ago[Video] EU foreign chief Kaja Kallas says Russia fighting the Nazis in WW2 is fake newsi.imgur.comvideomessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up17arrow-down1video[Video] EU foreign chief Kaja Kallas says Russia fighting the Nazis in WW2 is fake newsi.imgur.comIndustryStandard@lemmy.world to Europe@lemmy.ml · 7 days agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTenderizer78@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down10·6 days agoIt’s more like the Nazis fought Russia. They had a deal to carve-up Poland but then the Nazis (as Nazis do) reneged on that deal.
minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·6 days agoEurope was the one making deals with the Nazis. Which the Nazis kept reneging on. As Nazis do. Stalin offered Europe help to fight the Nazis. But Europe refused. The position of Truman most exemplifies the West during WW2: “If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.”
minus-squareTenderizer78@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down9·6 days agoEurope and America are besides the point.
minus-squareIndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·6 days agoThey are not. Because Stalin took the Poland deal after Europe refused to fight Hitler with him. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3223834/Stalin-planned-to-send-a-million-troops-to-stop-Hitler-if-Britain-and-France-agreed-pact.html
It’s more like the Nazis fought Russia. They had a deal to carve-up Poland but then the Nazis (as Nazis do) reneged on that deal.
Europe was the one making deals with the Nazis. Which the Nazis kept reneging on. As Nazis do.
Stalin offered Europe help to fight the Nazis. But Europe refused.
The position of Truman most exemplifies the West during WW2:
Europe and America are besides the point.
They are not. Because Stalin took the Poland deal after Europe refused to fight Hitler with him.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3223834/Stalin-planned-to-send-a-million-troops-to-stop-Hitler-if-Britain-and-France-agreed-pact.html