Stalin's plan for the Soviet domination of Europe

Covering the Map of the World — The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference ^ | February 1995 | Richard M. Ebeling

[Tailgunner Joe]

In 1939, Stalin began his play for Soviet domination of Europe. Years earlier, in a secret speech to the Communist Party Central Committee in January 1925, Stalin had laid out the strategy from which he never swerved in foreign policy: "But if war breaks out [in Europe] we shall not be able to sit with folded arms. We shall have to take action, but we shall be the last to do so. And we shall do so in order to throw the decisive weight into the scales, the weight that can turn the scales." Stalin's Marxist-Leninist view was that any war that broke out in Europe would be a war between the imperialist and capitalist nations. The strategy was to deflect any attack against the Soviet Union, and instead allow the capitalist nations to fight each other to exhaustion, at which point the Soviet Army would enter the war and conquer the European continent for the Communist cause.

In August 1939, Stalin put the strategy into practice by signing a nonaggression pact with Hitler, which meant that the war would be fought in the West among Germany, Britain, and France, leaving the Soviet Union safe and secure. In the meantime, the secret protocols of the Nazi-Soviet Pact gave Stalin control over eastern Poland, the Baltic Republics, Bessarabia, and Finland. Stalin's plan was that in 1942, at the latest, the Soviet Army would attack Germany, now that France was finished and England was weak and isolated off the European coast. The only problem was that Hitler double-crossed Stalin first by invading the Soviet Union in June 1941. This did not stop Stalin, after the German defeat at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-43, however, in proposing a separate peace to Hitler through intermediaries in neutral Sweden, and obviously at the expense of his British and American allies. The only thing that prevented it was the fact that Hitler was unwilling to pay Stalin's price for ending the war on the eastern front. (See the review of Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War? in Freedom Daily, November 1991.)

[dfwgator]

Western Europe got The Marshall Plan. Eastern Europe got The Marshall Stalin Plan.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Germany smuggled Lenin into Russia in order to topple the czars. I guess they were also "collaborators" then with the Bolsheviks and all deserved to be swallowed by communism.

I guess the fact that the Finnish White Guard fought and won against the Soviet communists in 1918 does not excuse them from guilt the way the struggle of the White Russians proves that every last Russian is completely innocent in your mind.

Yes of course I disagree with your pronouncements regarding who is guilty and deserving of communist slavery. Is it on account of their victimization of the poor innocent Russians who had absolutely nothing to do with Bolshevism that you seek revenge on all those who helped topple the Czardom?

I don't believe in collective guilt, nor do I believe that anyone ever anywhere for any reason deserves to live in communist slavery, including Russians.

[RusIvan]

I don't believe in collective guilt, nor do I believe that anyone ever anywhere for any reason deserves to live in communist slavery, including Russians.===

I agree with taht too. And I never thought that anyone russian is innocent. I just thought that russians and nonrussian citizens are all guilty of communism.
I'm totallyagainst that ALL guilt of communism someone pins ONLY on russians!

[GOP_1900AD]

Oh man, that's a good one. I'll have to put that into my repetoir of one liners! ;)

[FulmenTheFinnish]

Oh my god, this just shows just how stupid you Russians are... Viipuri (Vyborg in Russian) was always Finnish since its foundation till 1940 and again in 1941-44. Sometimes it had been controlled or occupied by Russia, but it had always been Finnish. Russia never “gave” the Finnish part of the Karelian Isthmus to Finland, it was already a part of an independent Finland since 1917.

In 1939 Stalin demanded areas of Finland that had NEVER been a part of the Soviet Union, but the Finns refused. Had they accepted though, Finland’s fate would’ve been the same of the Baltic states. Stalin tried to force that fate on the Finns anyway, but the Finns won a defensive victory in both of their wars against Russia during WWII and kept their independence.

Get your facts right and learn some proper English, ignorant Russkie.