So in other words, it's a work of fiction trying to whitewash a piece of shit who, due to his stupidity and cruelty, almost lost his country to Hitler, despite nominally being more powerful.
On the first day of Barbarossa, Hitler destroyed over 2000 Soviet aircraft while losing a couple dozen. How?
It's pretty hilarious to compare the level of corruption in the Baltic states or Poland to the Russian one. I'd really advise against it. In those countries, a government worker stealing a hundred thousand dollars is a massive scandal.
It's weird to flex Russian unemployment rate when millions of qualified workers fled, hundreds of thousands are crippled or killed, and there's mass demand to produce guns. Russia actually has a huge worker deficit. No shit unemployment is low.
Fascist Ukraine has people of all ethnicities and religions fighting for their right to join the EU, the ultimate "anti-right wing" organization promoting everything fascism stands against. Makes total sense.
And Ukraine is getting Patriot air defense from Israel for being anti-Semitic.
Note how most of the states colonized by Russia are now far wealthier and happier than Russia itself. The Baltic states, Poland, Hungary and pretty much everyone else. Almost immediate improvement. Countries heavily influenced by Russia (Ukraine, Belarus) remained shitholes.
Russia and every state occupied by Russia ended up a shithole, mostly bankrupt by the 90s. Compare it to countries that didn't get colonized by Russia. Finland vs Karelia, West vs East Germany.
Are you claiming this whole article is a fabrication? It has tons of references, you're free to check them. If you google for "German–Soviet Axis talks", you'll find lots of other materials.
Though given how frequently Russia photoshops Swastikas on Ukrainians, there's at least a 90% probability that your screenshot is a lie. Of course you never tried to verify it.
"German–Soviet Axis talks occurred in October and November 1940, nominally concerning the Soviet Union's potential adherent as a fourth Axis power during World War II among other potential agreements."
Partial implementation - mass deportations with exterminations, replacement with Russian colonists. That's where the Russians in Latvia came from, and that's why the Latvians hate Russia.
"he signed a NAP to buy time" is pure fantasy. Per every document, he believed Hitler to be a friend (even signed a FRIENDSHIP pact), helped build the Wehrmacht, and in late 1941 refused to believe his top spies yelling about Barbarossa.
The communists were Nazi allies in the beginning of WWII.
"German–Soviet Axis talks occurred in October and November 1940, nominally concerning the Soviet Union's potential adherent as a fourth Axis power during World War II among other potential agreements."
After WWII ended, Stalin took the Generalplan Ost blueprint, and implemented it in eastern Europe, deporting and exterminating a tremendous amount of people. Including in Latvia.
Stalin for example. Signed a friendship treaty with Hitler. Started WWII on Hitler's side. Tried to formally join the Axis in 1940 (the talks were at an advanced stage, but Hitler declined because Stalin got too greedy). Helped build the German war machine with millions of tons of resources.
By "they will pay the highest price, like Ukraine is paying", you mean "if they don't do Russia's bidding and enslave themselves, Russia will come and murder all of them"?
Shouldn't you advocate for inflicting as much pain on Russia as possible, so that it stops this bullshit?
Would the war have been different, had Biden used the Lend Lease act signed in May 2022 to flood Ukraine with weapon systems from US boneyards (including F-16 jets with retired foreign pilots at first), gave long range missiles and removed any limitations on how Ukraine uses the weapons?
