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13381134, Don't wanna derail, but it seems like you're romanticizing USSR's motivations
Posted by PimpTrickGangstaClik, Tue Apr-28-20 01:06 PM
This is my HS history class talking, so bear with me lol.
The Soviets were pretty much allies of Germany at the start of the war (maybe frenemies). It wasn't until the Nazis decided to try to conquer the USSR (Operation Barbarossa) that the Soviets started fighting them.
It wasn't the threat of fascism that sparked the Soviets to action. It was existential threat of an invading nation. And it happened much later than the Europeans.
USSR didn't care about fascism until it threatened them
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>Yep. It doesn't require a blind assent to the USSR, especially
>the USSR under Stalin, to point out that they understood the
>threat of fascism before the liberal nations of Europe and
>especially before the United States did.
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