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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy
Stalin if anything trusted Hitler too much and would never have gone to war if Germany hadn't started pushing into the USSR... he was happy for Hitler to have all of Western Europe. In fact I believe the reason so many Russians ended up dead was because Stalin was slow in responding to intelligence that Hitler intended to push into the USSR, probably because he realised it was a strategic disaster for Germany so they'd never do it, but they did, and he was right, splitting the German front weakened them dramatically. Basically we're lucky that Stalin was right that Germany splitting their front was a terrible idea, and lucky that he was wrong about Hitler not actually trying to do it.
But ideologically? Stalin was all for Germany chewing up Europe and then splitting some of the land with the USSR.
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It's weird to think that in just the Twentieth Century, parts of Europe were under the boots of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism
