Not only were they allied, historical notes suggest that Stalin was obviously deeply hurt by the eventual backstab from Hitler. He thought they were best buds.
He thought they were two genocidal peas in a pod. Who would have thought that you can’t trust an unhinged maniac? Put two of them together, and no wonder it didn’t work out well.
Their shared objective in 1939 was to carve up and annex Europe between them. That one party to the alliance unilaterally terminated the alliance does not mean that the alliance never existed.
Germany and the Soviet Union were never allied.
Not only were they allied, historical notes suggest that Stalin was obviously deeply hurt by the eventual backstab from Hitler. He thought they were best buds.
in which war did germany and the Soviet Union act as allies? who cares about Stalin’s feelings?
In World War 2 before 22 June 1941, when Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa.
Perhaps most notably in the annexation of Poland, and in a more distant way in Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Bessarabia, Lithuania.
He thought they were two genocidal peas in a pod. Who would have thought that you can’t trust an unhinged maniac? Put two of them together, and no wonder it didn’t work out well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact
i’m well aware. the whole purpose was to defer the war between the two. where’s the alliance in it?
Clearly, not.
Their shared objective in 1939 was to carve up and annex Europe between them. That one party to the alliance unilaterally terminated the alliance does not mean that the alliance never existed.