• vga@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    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.

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        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.

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      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.