Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
1. Stalin signed a ten year non aggression pact with Hitler, and participated in the partition of Poland. He had previously purged a good many of his military as being "politicaly unreliable" and made a variety of other cock ups. They made their own bed and you complain that they had to sleep in it. They are "grumpy," and it is someone else's fault, of course.
You seem to be an easy mark for their rhetoric. you might want to go back and read the red rhetoric of the 1920's and 1930', and the stated goal of tearing down the world order of the time to be replaced with a utopia. Same blinkered ideals as the French revolution, similar flaws in execution ...
Stalin offered to put 1 million men with tanks, artillery and planes on Polish German border in August 1939, UK and French diplomats did not respond when in Moscow. Stalin signed the agreement with Hitler a week later knowing what was going to occur and buying time.
Would it have sacrifced Polish independence ? yes but that lasted less than 3 weeks post this. War would have happened anyway just likely have been shorter without what had occurred.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...reed-pact.html