only when their sovereignty was threatened. Stalin hated the political ideology of the rest of the western nations as much as he hated nazism. He was a tyrant. No worse than hitler. He didnt occupy eastern europe for reconstruction or influence after the war. He was an expansionist. He didnt fight the germans for the sake of saving those nations under their grip, he fought for the survival of his regime and exportation of the workers revolution.sergeriver wrote:
Firendly? I'd say they were not attacking each other until Hitler went nuts, and invaded Russia. You must admit that Russians made most of the dirty work. They smashed Hitler and therefore Hitler lost the war. The other Allies helped too, but Russians made the biggest effort IMO.GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
but they were friendly with the nazis until they invaded. And the area that the USSR "saved", well, they did call it an iron curtain for a reason.sergeriver wrote:
Exactly. I don't hear any Russian guy saying the same, and in fact they saved Europe's ass from Hitler. I don't say the Us didn't help, but the Russians took the worst part and they didn't get the credit.
SOviet troops in eastern europe are no better than nazi troops in eastern europe. they were conquerors.
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