u/yw4lkwhenUcanride - originally from r/GenZhou
Take a quick look at what those baltic states were doing during WW2 and you might have your answer
u/Lord_Voldemar - originally from r/GenZhou
They were annexed and occupied by USSR and their goverents, armed forces and all other administrative organs dissolved.
u/yw4lkwhenUcanride - originally from r/GenZhou
And thank god the USSR did that.
Lithuanian Collaboration during the Second World War
If only the USSR could have finished the job.
u/Lord_Voldemar - originally from r/GenZhou
So, the USSR was justified in its actions due to... future events that had yet come to pass?
u/yw4lkwhenUcanride - originally from r/GenZhou
Do you think the holocaust started in 1940? Lol. Its almost like Stalin had already foreseen a war with Germany that would result in these areas becoming vital strategic locations that also required liberation from Nazi policy.
Pretty smart guy, that Stalin cat.
u/Lord_Voldemar - originally from r/GenZhou
So, again, USSR was justified in using a threat of military invasion as leverage for subversion of unaligned countries, occuping and annexing them for strategic reasons by dissolving them as political powers for potential future reasons?
How is this different to just regular plain old imperialism?
u/yw4lkwhenUcanride - originally from r/GenZhou
"unaligned" is a pretty generous way to describe literal Nazis collaborators, guy
And yes. They were clearly justified. Our hindsight 20/20 only affirms those decisions made by the USSR
u/Lord_Voldemar - originally from r/GenZhou
What collaboration was happening during 1940? And how were they justified through actions of people almost entirely unassociated with any of the political organs?
u/yw4lkwhenUcanride - originally from r/GenZhou
Its almost like the same people who did all the pogroms in 1941 were also in Lithuanian gvmt in 1940.
It isnt hard to just *not* make apologies for literal Nazis, you know
u/TheClawMarks - originally from r/GenZhou
You have a source for that?
A space to archive anything from /r/GenZhou