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please name one (1) war started by the Russian Federation or the USSR
Lol, going to be interesting to see how you justify your interpretation "war started".....
Okay I'll bite. For the soviets, let's go for when Stalin and Hitler buddied up an invaded Poland together, or we could go with the Afghan war, pick your poison.....
And for the federation, let's go with the first Chechen war.
Why were they "forced"? Poland was not part of their country, they had no reason to be forced into killing polish people. They decided to divide it and ally with the nazi.
Lol, ahh yes Hafizullah Amin invited the spetznaz and kgb to the palace to assassinate him. You're talking about Babrak Karmal, who invited them, but that was already after the soviets had deposed the last leader in storm-333.
Lol, didn't expect that amount of nationalistic language to come from a supposed leftist. Chechnya is only Russian by de jure, it's a colonial holding from the Russian empire.
Again, it's interesting to see you define "started the conflict". Does a country not have a right to self determination? Didn't Lenin say that the workers should be able to determine their own future? Is declaring independence from a historically abusive colonizer an act of war? Or is responding to a declaration of Independence with hard power when the war begins... you can't have it both ways.
you fucking dumb antisemitic piece of shit, Poland was occupied by the Nazis and was massacring Jews and other minorities. the USSR intervened to protect people and give themeselves buffer space for the future Nazi invasion of russia. If you are aiding Nazis your 'self determination' is less than worthless. A shitload of Polish citizens sought refuge in the USSR and a shitload more fought on their side against the Nazi collaborators. Literally look at the citations of the WIkipedia page for the occupation of poland, they cite Tadeusz Piotrowski constantly, who on his own wikipedia page is said to be regurgitating Polish nationalist right wing propaganda.
America hired and funded right wing and Nazi propaganda immediately after world war 2 to push "double genocide" narratives exactly like yours. You are ignorantly repeating debunked Nazi propaganda.
Yes, the ally of the Soviets were massacring Jews. Which the Soviet Union really didn't care about. They were completely fine with having the nkvd massacre polish officers, which a significant part of were Jewish. The whole reason Poland has such a high Jewish population was because a lot of them had already fled pogroms in Germany and the very early Soviet Union.
Lol, except when It was the soviets?
"Germany and the Soviet Union entered an intricate trade pact on 11 February 1940 that was over four times larger than the one that the two countries had signed in August 1939.[219] The new trade pact helped Germany surmount a British blockade.[219] In the first year, Germany received one million tons of cereals, half-a-million tons of wheat, 900,000 tons of oil, 100,000 tons of cotton, 500,000 tons of phosphates and considerable amounts of other vital raw materials, along with the transit of one million tons of soybeans from Manchuria. Those and other supplies were being transported through Soviet and occupied Polish territories.[219] The Soviets were to receive a naval cruiser, the plans to the battleship Bismarck, heavy naval guns, other naval gear and 30 of Germany's latest warplanes, including the Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighters and Ju 88 bomber.[219] The Soviets would also receive oil and electric equipment, locomotives, turbines, generators, diesel engines, ships, machine tools, and samples of German artillery, tanks, explosives, chemical-warfare equipment, and other items.[219]"
And tons were forcibly removed to gulags. It's almost like there were multitudes of different opinions and causes in Poland at the time.....
And the soviets took in zero Nazis, or ever propagandized their partnership with the nazi?
When did I say anything about a double genocide? My claim was that the soviets invaded Poland with their Nazi allies.
It's hilarious that you say I'm repeating debunked propaganda when you won't eve acknowledge that the soviets and nazi were once allies.
the fucking nazis were literally racist against slavic people, they did not take prisoners during their invasions, they sent them to death camps. to suggest that the soviets and the nazis were allies is patently absurd, their ideologies are diametrically opposed and you can do literally any cursory research to confirm the opinions of the people involved. literally read anything the nazis wrote about the soviets at the time, or anything the soviets wrote about the nazis. other users have already provided the context for those agreements, which you ignore. The soviets had tried to establish treaties with the allies before the molotov-ribbentrop pact, which they refused. it was an act of desperation to give the USSR time to establish military production factories and supply lines before the war. to spin that into an alliance is simply irresponsible historiography.