Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone View Post
An expectation that the Stalin would set all that aside and could be counted on as a partner to counter Nazi aggression in 1938 & 1939 would be extremely naive, and therefore I'd like to retract the use of the term "betrayal" and instead substitute "manipulation and self-interested calculation".
And France and Britain didn't do that, when they tried to pitch Germany and the Soviet Union against eachother?

PS: Historical discussions go in the monastery.