I found this meme, and now this one pops up in my head every time I see a russian or a tankie claim that the USSR "saved the world from nazism" and ignore this "minor" detail.
Given that in doing so they saved Poland from Nazism I'd say they were fully and completely justified. (This also ignores that Poland as a country no longer existed by the time the USSR occupied it, as their (already fascist btw) government had fully fled the country.)
Ah yes, they wanted to save poland from nazism, which is why they sat there while half of it was under nazi control and didn't do anything about it until the nazi's decided to invade them.
are you high?
They weren't in the position to wage war on Germany at the time, so they waited and built up their military forces until the moment they could no longer wait. Do note, of course, that this never would have happened had France and the UK agreed to the USSR's proposed alliance against Germany prior to WW1, but the liberal "democracies" were banking on the Nazis wiping out the Soviets.
They weren't able to take on germany at the time (source; i presume your ass) so they agree'd to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, which had a "secret protocol" that partitioned germany and the USSR's "borders" under the assumption that there would be invasions and conquering of said countries.
And the talks between the two countries had Germany state "there is one common element in the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies of the West"
I have no intention to continue arguing with some rando historical illiterate on tumblr who would rather believe liberal and fascist propaganda about World War 2 than actual historical facts.
Your citing nothing but crossed fingers and "dude trust me" for your historical facts to defend a country and leader that has a massive bodycount, largely of its own people, backed up with documentation and the testimony of people involved in doing that, because you want to defend the ideology that allowed said man to take power.
And you seem perfectly fine with the idea of a completely Nazi-controlled Poland, but ofc let’s not unpack that, shall we?
actually we should because, fuckhead, the point of the post is that its not just the nazi's who invaded poland, it was the soviets as well because the soviets were just as bad as the nazi's, as you can tell when you look over at the figures of how many citizens either got deported to siberia or just died under soviet control, and the mass graves left over from the Katyn Massacre.
in an ideal world someone would have shot hitler well before WW2 and the USSR would have collapsed soon after.
If you have to twist folks words to mean the exact opposite of what they actually meant either you are barely literate or your ideology does not stand up on its own two legs in your own head.
“Given that in doing so they saved Poland from Nazism I'd say they were fully and completely justified.”
Ah yes, the enlightened oppressor argument. Glad to see commies are still terrible
Poland hates them both, and with good reason, be like Poland and reject authoritarianism in all its forms.
Soviets almost did more war crimes than the Germans did, people just looked the other way because they were doing them to the Germans.
Their numbers after entering Berlin are on par with imperial Japan's actions in Nanjing in 1937.
And let's not even start with what they did after Japan had already surrendered.
