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Let’s stop on Molotov Ribbentrop, I’d like to hear how I’ve been lied to there.
Can you explain what you mean?
I grew up in the USA and never once was taught Stalin had absolute power. I’m not sure what the link was supposed to change there.
What does Mao have to do with this, how do quotes selected from his writings have anything to do with the thing I asked?
I’m not sure if you’re trying to explain anything to me or just use lots of words to talk generally about an idea you feel.
Molotov Ribbentrop was negotiated in secret while negotiating with the allies.
Stalin backed out of the negotiations, not the Allies.
It wasn’t AFTER, it was more they were playing both sides to carve up Eastern Europe in their favor.
While ill advised or wrong they may have been the UK believed war could be averted still. Obviously they were wrong. Invading Poland about it with the Nazis I guess is ok to you.
To act as if the soviets were innocent actors who were forced to ally with the Nazis to invade Poland and carve up Eastern Europe into spheres of influence because the big bad allies wouldn’t invade Germany and help the Soviets carve up Eastern Europe is some of the most revisionist nonsense anyone’s ever thought that intelligent people could believe.
Kudos on that mental gymnastic accomplishment.