> USSR would have put up to 120 infantry divisions , 16 cavalry divisions, 5,000 heavy artillery pieces, 9,500 tanks and up to 5,500 fighter aircraft and bombers on Germany's borders.
> They did not respond to the Soviet offer, made on August 15, 1939. Instead, Stalin turned to Germany, signing the notorious non-aggression treaty with Hitler barely a week later.
telegraph.co.uk
Thoughts
>Inb4 but its from 2008
Stalin planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler
Robert Stewart
Brandon Clark
Stalin was the best goy.
Fucking jews kill them all.
Bentley Price
Bumperino
Kayden Diaz
Stalin and the russkies were based
they killed retarded revolutionary commies like trotsky and saved europe from the hands of the krauts and their muslim friends
Michael Clark
Mason Wood
But Marx was a jew
Nathaniel Peterson
Hitler loved Muslims. Stalin genocided Chechens and Crimean Tatars
Elijah Lewis
Revisionist propaganda, and not related to the article.
Justin Cook
Contrary to the popular belief, it was Stalin who did the most to destroy Communism.
Cooper White
>Not Kruschev
Wut?
Kayden Hughes
because hitler loved religion right?
you know that he was a pagan and wanted to convert to islam because christianity was a "weak" religion
he was a moron, at least stalin contributed something useful
Asher Kelly
(((mF6Lr9VY)))
Kevin Clark
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Easton Myers
>stalin contributed something useful
an assertion I have shown to be completely false.
I am fully aware of Hitler's own anti-Christian plans.
en.wikipedia.org
Jackson Thompson
CAN THIS SUWOROW / BUNICH "OPERATION GROZA" MEME FINALLY STOP?
thank you. historians across the world are getting real tired of this "omfg guise operation barbarossa wuz pre-emptive strike" bullshit
William Roberts
From the comments:
>Britain's part in these negotiatiions, sending Admiral Drax to Russia by the slowest route, by sea to Leningrad, was designed to be inconclusive. Drax was, as he confessed, unable to negotiate and a figure of real obscurity. The Foreign Office was pro-German at its highest level and anti-Soviet from top to bottom.
Cameron Miller
>The importance of understanding that Britain and the USA were doing all that they could to promote a war against the Soviet Union-the war that they eventually got in 1941- is that it clarifies the nature not only of the Cold War but of the current crises. The maritime Empire founded by the British and centred now on the Old British Empire in the USA has had two cardinal objects since the C18th. The first is to hedge in Russia . the only viable rival to the Empire and the second is to suppress labour, to control the work force. They hated the Soviet Union because it combined their worst two nightmares- a powerful state capable of challenging them and an inspiration to colonial and metropolitan working people alike.
Those who lost families in the Second World War need to recognise that the greatest part of the blame rests precisely on the shoulders of the "western" imperialists who set fire to the world in the hope that socialism and Eurasian sovereignty would be burned out. As to the millions of people who died-from the victims of Auschwitz; to the millions starved to death in Bengal to prevent a Japanese advance beyond Imphal; to the millions of Red Army members who were starved and worked to death in German slave labour camps- the people who sent Drax to Russia-so that they could claim that Stalin had turned down their offers of alliance- like the American generals who prayed for the success of Barbarossa,saw them all as co-lateral damage.
World War II took place because the imperialists miscalculated- they did not anticipate that the old Russian empire with its Bolshevik gloss would be able to resist.
Christopher Nguyen
>wikipedia
Not a source.
Andrew Williams
>sending more men into the meat-grinder
I like these tactics USSR.
Gotta control the population somehow.
Isaac Lopez
>They imagined that it would break up and that the Nazis would find in it enough loot to keep them busy, leaving Britain unchallenged in its Empire and the United States free to do as it wished throughout the western hemisphere and the Pacific. They were,of course, wrong but they have never had to admit either their folly or their guilt and thus they rule on in the world.
Andrew Sanders
Hitler would not had invaded Poland with the soviet Army helping then.
Colton Peterson
Good.
Maybe now we can put the "durr you fought for the wrong side and betrayed the White race by fighting Germany" neonazi meme to rest.
We had the opportunity to smash Germany while it was still weak and we turned it down rather than cooperate with the Soviets. It was HITLER who destroyed Europe by opening it's gates to the Bolshevik hordes with his "non-aggression pact" and then unilateral betrayal of his new "ally", providing them with the excuse to pour across the border and seize half of Christendom
Hitler did not care about Europe.
Hitler did not care about the White race.
His sole goal was solely to aggrandise his little tinpot dictatorship at the expense of the older and more established cultures and nations of Europe, to build up Germany while bringing everyone else down.
Lucas Scott
The big capitalists feared the USSR more than anything, and there are still people that think Hitle and the nazis where socialists