It’s a fact.

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      never happened.
      That’s american ‘education’ for you, why am I not surprised?
      Or is it your 420 influence?

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      You get that Russia offered to fight against the Nazis with Britain and France but Britain and France refused right?

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        I mean it doesn’t change the fact that Soviet Union did make a deal with the Nazis and split Europe between them. Nobody is doubting that there was a reason for doing it.

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          It totally does change it. Making a non-aggression pact with the biggest military in the world just sounds like a rational move.

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            I think you misunderstood. It doesn’t change the fact that such a pact happened and that they did divide Europe between them in it. It’s opinion on how justified such a thing where those arguments matter.

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              Giving facts without appropriate context IS manipulation.

              Stalin certainly wasn’t stupid enough to genuinely ally with the nazis and did took pragmatic decision after he was turned away by the ally, who hated communism as much as hitler.

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                You get that Russia flight with Germany until they got betrayed right? Right?

                never happened.

                That was the preceding discussion. Someone seemed to be denying it happening at all. Someone came in with a justification for the action, I was just saying that it doesn’t change the fact of it happening, just the justification over it. For further clarification, I’m against the denialism. I’m not saying it wasn’t a pragmatic decision, even if morally dubious.

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                    I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt since their tone seemed to be changing a bit during the discussion, but it turned out it was just the old “that didn’t happen and even if it did” thing.

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          If that’s a ‘fact’ it should be easy to prove right?
          Or is it more likely you pulled it from your ass?

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              Yawn, this again.
              As I thought, pulled from your ass and the same cheap tricks they try to claim with this pact.
              A non-aggression treaty is not “split Europe between them”

              Wait I’ll return the favor:
              Here is the deal between the nazis and their friends from England to split Europe between them.
              https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030005003

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                You might read the whole first sentence of the article

                was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe.

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                  LOL Maybe you should learn that Wikipedia is not a source and proven to be extremely biased and manipulated.
                  You don’t even know that.
                  And even that Wiki page doesn’t cite sources, something you need if you don’t want to be seen as just making shit up, which you clearly are.
                  You claim it’s in that pact, then go to the absolute source and show me where it is.

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                    Wikipedia just has approachable articles, so I linked to that since you seemingly hadn’t heard of the pact. It cites sources like so [1] for further reading. And the existence of such pact has been admitted to in Germany, Soviet Union and later in Russia. Its existence isn’t exactly controversial. It’s rather how justified it was that’s argued about.

                    You claim it’s in that pact, then go to the absolute source and show me where it is.

                    Here’s the original texts [1], [2]. If you want an English translation, plenty of them online. Heres’ one (pdf). The secret protocols are at the end.

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        Yeah so they chose to sleep with the enemy, two faced imperialists, you’re not making the point you think you are.

        Genuinely, this is supposed to be a socialist/communist instance but y’all can’t stop dick riding stalinists like they’re goddamn perfect. Even if you support them you sure as shit shouldn’t be blind about everything because of it.

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          France and Britain slept with the enemy. Russia saw the writing on the wall and tried to prevent it.

          Russia was the main party fighting ww2. France instantly capitulated to the Nazis.

          I get that you are a liberal but accurately retelling ww2 is not riding Stalin. Stalin made plenty stupid moves but mostly after the war. The only reason the West fought the Nazis is because they finally came for them.

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                I know. My grand-grandpa wanted to enlist in the volonteers to go work in germany to support the war effort against the big bad reds.

                Good thing his wife told him he was never seeing her again if he did that.

                It’s not a branch of my family i’m very proud of lmao. Bunch of child beating assholes

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              At least when you are wrong try to not load your comments with insults. I guess you are trying to find a reason to get banned while libposting so you can make a whine post about it on lib communities and pretend you got banned for libposting instead being a toxic turd.

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              I’m not a liberal dipshit.

              I don’t think they said or even implied that you are a dipshit.

              Also, saying they had more dead bcs of their “terrible industry” is a weird way to shame a very underdeveloped nation (and if Russia capitulated Germany would have solidified the power over Europe). And akin to implying other countries could have contribute only slightly more bodies & with their “better industries” end WWII sooner.

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                I’m not a liberal or a dipshit, brush up on your reading comprehension though that might honestly explain some of what goes on here.

                Neat edit I can do that too.

                I didn’t diminish their part in the war, I’m just not willing to overinflate it. Similarly I didn’t say they contributed less because they just threw bodies at a wall, you’re the only one implying that and it’s an absurd thing to do.

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                  I agree that it’s always the “dipshits” and the “dumb dumbs” that make it weird.
                  Weird-weird, not sexy weird.