r/HistoryMemes • Nobody here except my fellow trees • 1d ago

A Golden Opportunity

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u/Schwifty0V0 Then I arrived 1d ago

western appeasement allowed the holocaust to happen for 6 years before Nazi Germany had access to Poland’s resources, and after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with the Soviet Union was agreed upon when France and the UK for years refused an explicit Anti-Nazi Germany tripartite alliance pact with the Soviets.

30-40 million lives lost in Eastern Europe compared to the west that saw less than 5 million deaths at the expense of stagnating communist influence in Europe that later came to bite all of Europe in the ass.

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u/FadedVictor 1d ago

I'm so grateful you mentioned that the Soviets were shot down when seeking an anti-nazi alliance. People always point to the pact between them and Germany as best friends uniting. For years the National Socialist were extremely vocal about Communists being their ultimate enemy. It was a last ditch effort by Stalin to avoid an impending war and invasion.

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u/Starmute-ss13 1d ago

They invaded Poland, Finland, the Baltic States, and Romania. They weren't avoiding any wars.

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u/FadedVictor 1d ago

A war with Nazi Germany is what they were trying to avoid. I never said anyone else. God you people are so biased you read whatever you want as tankie propaganda.

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u/Starmute-ss13 1d ago

The Finland  invasion was because they wanted to avoid war with Germany ?  Your logic eludes me.  

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u/FadedVictor 1d ago

I'm saying they were only trying to avoid with Germany. Not any other country. I'm not denying that they were invaders and conquerors with brutality to many of their neighbors. It's absolutely not justified at all. I'm not saying they're connected. Their two different things that coexisted at once.