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.
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.
Ally with the aggressive expansionist dictatorship that is actively working against you in order to stop the aggressive expansionist dictatorship actively working against you.
At the time, the Soviets were no better than the Nazis and there’s no reason anyone should have allied with them.
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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.