(December 31, 2019 at 7:06 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: They came, they saw, they hesitated, and finally they capitulated at Munich 11 month before, in the process chamberlain turned himself into caricature of delusion by waving a piece of paper with hitler’s signature, proclaiming it to mean “peace for our time”.This!
Hitler had good reason to think they would capitulate again. If they had truly been clear headed and planned to fight with Germany’s next transgression, it would be reasonable to suppose they would have been more receptive to Stalin’s overtures to form a united front against Germany. Instead they strung the soviets along, until the Soviets found it easier to gain some security by allying with Germany than trying to stitch together an anti-german alliance with unwilling anglofrench.
The Russians are lying by pretending soviet pact with hitler wasn’t a major proximal cause of WWII. But the western countries are lying by pretending their own contradictory policies towards the Soviets between Munich and Poland didn’t really give the Soviets any choice but to seek security in an accommodation with Hitler.
Lets also not forget that Poland was substantial in averting an anti-german pact between rance/UK and the USSR by denying russias army to cross polish territory in order to defend it from german agression. From that point on, following such a policy was pointless for Stalin. It shouldnt be a big surprise that "plan B" and the next best logical ally was (according to realpolitik): Germany
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