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Maybe bordiga-despair had a point about Popular Fronts…

In seriousness, I do find this whole thing started by D*stiny pretty telling about how eagerly libs just copy-paste low-hanging “gotcha”s, especially since they feel threatened by an increased ”tankie” presence on social media. Anything to surprises that feeling emanating from cognitive dissonance a bit longer.

There’s no real honest conversation to be had with people who will use anything and everything to prove the USSR was Red Nazi Germany while also dismissing appeasement and outright support from the capitalist world (as well as their own imperial ventures) as oopsies.

Poland and Finland in particular being brought up is also pretty hilarious since both were right wing illiberal regimes engaged in their own “nation-building” efforts.

https://twitter.com/warbirdusa/status/1690552736494817280?s=46

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Also Stalin was willing to ally with Europe in order to prevent the spread of Nazism even before 1933. The Soviets were the first to warn about the nazis and the last to make a non-aggression pact with them. Even then, Stalin only made it so they could build up the industry to eventually go to war with them. It was always going to end up how it did but the Soviets attempted to stop Hitler for years before the Moltov-Ribbentrop Pact.