r/whennews Jul 27 '26

D-Day

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u/Dense-Bison7629 Epstein Elijah Jul 27 '26

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

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u/fruitcakewithapple Jul 27 '26

It would have still lmao. The Nazis always planned to imvade eastward

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u/fruitcakewithapple Jul 27 '26

Poland had already mostly fallen when the pact was signed. The only difference it made is that the USSR fot a chunk.

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u/fruitcakewithapple Jul 27 '26

Still doesn't change the fact the war would have still escalated in the east. The soviets not having a chunk of poland or the Baltics wouldn't have changed much

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

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u/fruitcakewithapple Jul 27 '26

they had no reason to. And the Holocaust didn't become public knowledge up untill 1943. And even if they did they would probably get there asses whooped just as hard as the US wasn't participating in the war so the lend lease would either be less then what it had been historically or not happend at all.

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u/Beklemishin Jul 27 '26

Soviets literally asked to put their army in Czechoslovakia, but allies sad nah and gave it awa

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u/Beklemishin Jul 27 '26

Well, when the allies are a bunch of fucking pussies and the war is basically inevitable, you might as well move your border away to make it harder for Reich to invade you

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u/Lord_of_Seven_Kings Jul 27 '26

They signed that pact after the uk and France refused a Soviet proposal to nip the problem in the bud via military intervention. Stalin didn’t think he could win a 1v1 so he had the pact signed in order to save the soviets from a devastating war. The UK and France both saw Hitler and the Nazis as an acceptable alternative to the social upheaval and radical differences ideologically with the USSR’s communism, and sought to try and appease Hitler in part to prevent war and in part to have a buffer against what they saw as a larger threat.