Irrelevant. USSR did annexe and had it expansion plan.
But to claim that USSR betrayed France and England is showing at least a lack of knowledge about the Political Game between the 2 World Wars.
Poland had a treaty with Nazi Germany against USSR few years before, and France and England were hoping to channel Hitler aggression to the East.
And no, Stalin had no trust left for Hitler, but he knew his armies were not much for the Germans (as showed by the simulations, twice the Germans played by Zukov won) and was hoping to buy time.
He needed 2 years more to rebuild an Army he destroyed with his paranoia and apparently acknowledge the fact the Red Army was in bad shape. The disaster of the 1st Finish war was kind of agreement of this assessment.
Now, I am not sure his really acknowledge is responsibility in this but this is another story…
The suffering of the Germans and Japanese population was more took in account in our movies than the Russian one.
Take books and you will see chapter treating the destruction and the suffering of these population, including the massive rape campaign in Berlin, ignoring most of the time that the Russian raped their own female soldiers as well (all right, the second fact was hidden by the Russians themselves).
Enola Gay was even a song…
When did we saw a movie about the Russian Civilians suffering? Defiance. 1 year ago?
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