[dfwgator]

If the Soviets didn’t start the war with Hitler then we wouldn’t have even been in that situation in the first place.

I don’t think Hitler invades Poland without signing the Non-Aggresion Pact with Stalin.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I didn’t know that.

[David Isaac]

“I don’t think Hitler invades Poland without signing the Non-Aggresion Pact with Stalin.”

Exactly. And after Russia stabs the civilized world in the back, in the Poland split, we were expected to do everything in our power to save them from the Germans. I would like to think our leaders were just stupid, but that is very difficult. I guess you could ask the East Germans, as well as several other Eastern European nations, if our slowing down on the Western-front and allowing the Russians to take Berlin, was a good thing. The Russians profited hugely in Germany, absconding with German technology as well as German nuclear and rocket scientists.

I would dare say, without our “assistance”, Russia would have remained the same festering, relatively powerless, s#!+hole it was before the war.

[mainepatsfan]

If he had tried there’s a good chance the plotters would have moved against him.