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WW2 was a shotgun marriage of convenience between the USSR and the West. Nothing more. Never forget that Old Joe Stalin was quite content to go strolling down the garden path with Old Adolph, happily invading Poland three weeks after the Krauts did most of the heavy lifting and snapping up the Baltic States. And he sat fat and sassy in the Kremlin every night during the fall and winter of 1940/41 while the Luftwaffe pounded London and other British cities. From 1945 and today Russia has been our enemy and Old Vlad has been making trouble and seems bent on making a lot more. Screw the Russkies.

Poland happily invaded Russia in 1919 taking no POWs, murdering civilians, destroying Orthodox churches, local schools, forbidding usage of local languages. Poland concluded military alliance with Hitler much earlier than Stalin, Pilsudski-Neirat pact, rejected Stalin's proposal about military alliance with the USSR. In 1939 Stalin returned territory of Russia seized by Poland along Kerzon line. Brits and France declared state of war to Hitler for his aggression against Poland and did not declare war to the USSR at the same time.
Brits and France too denied to make military alliance with the USSR conducting secret talks with Hitler and planning bombing Caspian oil fields from Iranian territory. To prevent this Stalin invaded Iran and kept army there during WWII. USSR-West marriage during WWII was forced by situation.