Fuck 'em. If they're really against committing genocide then follow in Aaron Bushnell's footsteps. Otherwise, good riddance.
Unironically, yes. While the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was a horrible idea, it came as a result of Western Europe handing Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany while they were still appeasing Hitler. There was legitimate fear of Hitler invading the SU and Western Europe giving him the green light in the name of "appeasement", hence the non-aggression pact (which was later broken).
As for the Soviet invasion, Poland had no way of winning against the initial Nazi invasion and even though the United Kingdom declared war in response to the invasion, they sent NO aid to Poland and left them to the wolves. When the Soviet Union invaded from the East, they did so in the name of protecting Slavic and Jewish Poles who were under threat of Nazi extermination.
Stalin concluded that the West had colluded with Hitler to hand over a country in Central Europe to the Germans, causing concern that they might do the same to the Soviet Union in the future to allow its partition between the western nations. This belief led the Soviet Union to reorient its foreign policy towards a rapprochement with Germany, which eventually led to the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in 1939.[89]
The response of non-ethnic Poles to the situation caused considerable complications. Many Ukrainians, Belarusians and Jews welcomed the invading troops.[100] Local Communists gathered people to welcome the Red Army troops in the traditional Slavic way by presenting bread and salt in the eastern suburb of Brest. A sort of triumphal arch on two poles, decked with spruce branches and flowers was fashioned for this occasion. A slogan in Russian on a long red banner, glorifying the USSR and welcoming the Red Army, crowned the arch.[101] The event was recorded by Lev Mekhlis, who reported to Stalin that the people of the West Ukraine welcomed the Soviet troops "like true liberators".[102]
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War for more info.
While I agree that the Soviet Union took too long to enter the fight against a clearly genocidal, expansionist and fascist regime in Japan, going to war with them isn't something to be taken lightly or done on the drop of a hat. ESPECIALLY when you're already losing millions fighting another genocidal, expansionist and fascist regime in Europe! I'd drag my feet, too!
Indeed, one of the most ironic things about the "Buy Canadian" movement is that the only way we know how to resist fascism is through consumption of differently branded products.
That doesn't stop me from buying Canadian of course, but it shows how few options neoliberalism gives us to protect our sovereignty.
This game hard as fuck
This is ahistorical, while the Soviet Union wasn't at war with Japan until the late stages they provided critical support to the Chinese Communists and Nationalists who had been fighting the Japanese since 1937 and forced the creation of the Second Unified Front against Japan (the Nationalist-Communist coalition that eventually drove Japan out of China). The Nationalists were so against uniting with those dirty Commies against Japan that Chiang had to be physically kidnapped and kept on house arrest until he would agree to form the Second Front!
There's a lot you can criticize the Soviet Union for, but their fight against fascism during the first half of the 20th century was not one of them.
/e/os can be installed on devices that can be purchased on the secondhand market for under $100. This is the opposite of "privacy only for the rich".
We lifted all the tariffs on the US as a "gesture of goodwill" to Big Daddy Trump and yet keep these stupid tariffs on China that are crushing our lumber and agriculture industries into dust out west, in order to protect some token auto industry jobs building gas-guzzling American cars. Feels like we're already the 51st state and Trump is just going to make it official.
I'm wondering how this will affect Linux support. Steam client on Linux depends on very old 32-bit libs from Ubuntu 12.04 (!) and is a major reason for distros keeping their 32bit support
I'm done with Carney man, this shit is so ass.