Oh boy I wonder what I’m wading into. BTW anyone that knows me knows I’m far from a tankie.
Stalin knew he was basically makeng a pact with the devil. He was going to sell them material, so that he could get money, so that he could industrialize the USSR, so that it could withstand an invasion. Talk about walking a knife’s edge. He wagered the USSR got more out of industrialization than Germany got out of raw resources. “We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or we shall be crushed.” Stalin said in 1931 and he wasn’t exactly wrong.
The Soviets did a hell of a lot against the Nazis, that doesn’t mean they were saints. Of course Stalin was a thug, wanted half of Poland, and probably would have rode the Alliance with Hitler as long as he could.
Oh boy I wonder what I’m wading into. BTW anyone that knows me knows I’m far from a tankie.
Stalin knew he was basically makeng a pact with the devil. He was going to sell them material, so that he could get money, so that he could industrialize the USSR, so that it could withstand an invasion. Talk about walking a knife’s edge. He wagered the USSR got more out of industrialization than Germany got out of raw resources. “We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or we shall be crushed.” Stalin said in 1931 and he wasn’t exactly wrong.
The Soviets did a hell of a lot against the Nazis, that doesn’t mean they were saints. Of course Stalin was a thug, wanted half of Poland, and probably would have rode the Alliance with Hitler as long as he could.
*Guess this just pisses everyone off lol.
Noooooooooo, why are you trying to be historically nuanced and not just dunk on the tankie strawman that was so meticulously crafted!!!