• DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, I already said we know you think it’s the same thing. Honestly this says a lot more about your historical literacy and critical thinking skills than it does about the USSR or Molotov-Ribbentrop.

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      Pointing out communists made imperialistic deals to pre-emptively strike neutral nations alongside Nazi Germany is historical illiteracy?

      Ok bud, be mad Communist action was “no, I can collaborate with it” until the tanks started rolling across the boarder.

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        Pointing out communists made imperialistic deals to pre-emptively strike neutral nations alongside Nazi Germany is historical illiteracy?

        Believing that’s what happened sure as fuck is.

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          Poland declined an alliance with Nazi Germany. Don’t be mad at me Stalin lacked the backbone to resist and instead joined in on a war of conquest. It happened, and while you might want pretend it didn’t, I respect myself too much to lie to myself like that. Enjoy your day.

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            Poland declined an alliance with Nazi Germany.

            And despite being already “moderately industrialized”, how did that work out for them?

            Most of the USSR was not even 25 years distant from being an agrarian serf society. Without buying time they’d have been doomed when the Nazis invaded, and Germany would have won the war in Europe.

            But you know that, or at least the people who fed you this line of bullshit know that. But conflating communism with Nazism still pays huge dividends for the assholes who actually rule the US and Europe.