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people my grandfather killed in WWII
YSK that it was tankies who killed 80% of the Nazis in ww2
We know, it was a team effort.
There was also that broken Nazi/Soviet pact and all that carving up of other peoples countries though that was supposed to go the other way.
And look, another Nazi plot with the Russians.
The Nazis had pacts with literally everyone. The Soviets were one of the last to sign one, because they had spent the proceeding years trying to form an explicitly anti-Nazi pact with the capitalist nations, only to be rebuffed.
If Chamberlain had listened to Stalin, the war either wouldn't have happened, or it would have been over much more quickly.
Everyone except America :)
(Which had segregation and was the inspiration for half of Nazi Germany's policies)
Everyone except America :)
Tends to happen when there's war happening in another continent
It’s the cutting up other peoples countries part without their say that the bully countries never understand.
There was also a secret protocol to the pact, which was revealed only after Germany's defeat in 1945[101] although hints about its provisions had been leaked much earlier, so as to influence Lithuania.[102] According to the protocol, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland were divided into German and Soviet "spheres of influence".[101] In the north, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia were assigned to the Soviet sphere.[101] Poland was to be partitioned in the event of its "political rearrangement": the areas east of the Pisa, Narew, Vistula, and San rivers would go to the Soviet Union, and Germany would occupy the west.[101] Lithuania, which was adjacent to East Prussia, was assigned to the German sphere of influence, but a second secret protocol, agreed to in September 1939, reassigned Lithuania to the Soviet Union.[103] According to the protocol, Lithuania would be granted its historical capital, Vilnius, which was part of Poland during the interwar period. Another clause stipulated that Germany would not interfere with the Soviet Union's actions towards Bessarabia, which was then part of Romania.[101] As a result, Bessarabia as well as the Northern Bukovina and Hertsa regions were occupied by the Soviets and integrated into the Soviet Union.
It’s the cutting up other peoples countries part without their say
Please tell me what alternative there was for these "cut up countries". If the USSR hadn't established military presence in these countries, they'd just have been invaded by the Nazis. Maybe you expect the Soviet Union, after being ignored for a decade of mutual defense negotiations, to selflessly send its people to die for the countries that refused a military alliance? Like literally, what was the alternative here
What a bunch of bullshit. It was naked irredentism as Stalin conquered countries that had gained their independence from Russia during the Revolutions and you know it.
And they were damn well proven right to be mistrustful of Russian chauvinism.
Many of these countries didn't "gain" their independence from "Russia", they were GRANTED independence by the Bolsheviks immediately after the November revolution. Really, look at Wikipedia's article on the independence of Finland. The first constitution of the Russian Socialist Federation of Soviet Republics clearly specified the right to unilateral secession and independence for all nations of the former Russian Empire.
Regardless of my or your opinions on the independence of these countries, you didn't answer the question: what was the alternative to Soviet military occupation for the Baltics and Poland? Tell us, what was the realistic alternative?
The Nazis had pacts with literally everyone.
Nope. With only with Russia, Axis nations, and a few small countries.
Stalin literally made a pact with Hitler to participate in the imperialist invasion of Poland.
Here's one example that took place a year before the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
Neville Chamberlain and Édouard Daladier made a pact with Hitler to just give him their former ally, Czechoslovakia.
Here’s one example that took place a year before the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
Yes, we all know about the infamously foolish appeasement of Hitler. That wasn't a defense pact like Hitler made with Stalin.
Clearly you don't know much about it, that's why I'm trying to teach you.
Clearly I know more than you do, since you didn't know the difference between a Military Invasion Pact that Hitler and Stalin made, and an appeasement agreement that the infamous fool Neville Chamberlian made.
No, you're someone who was blatantly and obviously wrong and now over a week later you've moved the goalposts in order to declare victory.
LMFAO! Dude I am not the person who equated Stalin and Hitler's imperialist joint military invasion pact with the UK's appeasement agreement. That was you. You are a Hitler/Stalin apologist. Who both killed tens of millions of people.
Equating Hitler with Stalin is genocide apologia. You don't know shit about fuck on this topic or, I suspect, any other related to historical communism, and for over a week now you've been showing your entire ass. Just stop.