Casual reminder

Who allied up with the Nazis to invade Poland?

IBM and Standard Oil
Soviets were the only ones who truly supported the Spanish democracy against the fascist. Every other country, including Poland, turned their back to us while the Luffwaffle was bombing our citizens.
- Soviets were the only ones who truly supported the Spanish democracy against the fascist.
  Curious that their backstabbing the Spanish republicans was instrumental in losing the Spanish Civil War for the republican side. Strange kind of support.
  
  What kind of propaganda are you reading in which sending weapons, planes and officers (while all the other countries did NOTHING) is backstabbing.
  Spain democracy lost because the allied powers did not care about us the same way the cared about Poland.
  
  You're on Divide By Zero, you should be fucking familiar with how they fucked the anarchists and the Trots, and that most of their 'aid' was purchased, not given.
  
  I'm friends with everyone leftist, even if they hate each other. I can feel comfortable among anarchist, tankies, socdems, new age leftists, reformist, etc. Because I know what our common objective is and I just can't care about the subtle differences. So I know the anarchist side of the story as well as I know the tankie side.
  Being myself an active member of the social movement in my country and actually having watched modern day anarchist working with modern day communists I can say without any doubts that no version is true. Probably both starting arguing about stupid shit, and actual personal problems disguised as political problems, when they should had focused on the real enemy. But anyway I'm thankful for ALL who fought against fascism in Spain, anarchist, communist, republicans... I thank the international brigades, I thank orwell and I thank the soviets and stalinist. They all put their lives on line to stop fascism.
  I just despise such an unproductive and harmful division of the left for shit that just does not matter when the true enemy is so big. And sometimes I just see a lust for internal division and eternal losing in such behavior. I don't know how some leftists have energy left to hate each other after they should had used that energy to fight the true enemy, capitalism and fascism. And I say this for any anarchist who hates tankies and any tankie who hates anarchists. You are not enemies, the enemy is in other direction.
  
  Because I know what our common objective is and I just can’t care about the subtle differences.
  Even when those 'subtle differences' result in being backstabbed and sold out and the entire cause being lost against a fascist enemy, great. Subtle little differences, like "We need to purge the anarchists and Trots" should be met with "We need complete and total cooperation with the people who want to purge us 😊"
  The true meaning of a united front, huh?
  
  As I said I have actually worked a lot in environments with a diverse leftist spectrum.
  And in my experience backstabbing usually goes both ways and is a result of the previous hate (and a lot of the time because personal non political issues) not the other way around.
  And yes. The only wins I've seen is when there have been total cooperation. Division is always the prelude of defeat.
  And be ensure that I would be saying exactly the same words to any tankie who talks about "purging any leftist" no matter what their ridiculous arguments are for such a premise. I've heard it all and it is often just as untrue.
- For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway is set during this period. Just a side note.
  
  Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell would also be a good read for someone looking favorably on the Soviets during the Spanish Civil War.
  
  Wasn't Orwell a British spy under Churchill and a professional anti-communist agitator?
  
  He was radicalized against the Soviets because they did not support the socialist revolution led by anarchosyndicalists. Instead Stalin supported the liberals because he said it wasn't time for revolution yet which is BS since Barcelona and big parts of Catalonia did well under anarchists. An anarchist revolution would undermine the "ends justify the means" and "there is no other way to socialism than ours" rhetoric of the bolsheviks.
  TLDR He was an anti-Soviet agitator but from the left
  
  He was radicalized against the Soviets because they did not support the socialist revolution
  Was this before or after he served as a British intelligence officer in colonial-era Burma?
  
  It was after. That also radicalized him towards class solidarity and socialism. He empathized with the suppressed indigenous peoples there and in the next step with the suppressed in his own country. He went to meet them and live with them as documented in his book The Road to Wigan Pier. Then, as a vaguely socialist, he went to Spain as documented in Homage to Catalonia. I read both books btw

And American weapons. Let's not pretend that the USSR fought alone.

And Brittish weapons
- and my axe!
  
  And Fremch razor
- Land Lease is just a western conspiracy!
  
  It's Lend-Lease...
Probably more accurate to say American trucks and raw materials, but yes.

They did some rapes too !

And only stole most of east Germany's infrastructure.
As did everyone. There's no study showing that the amount of rapes per soldier by the soviets is higher than that of other nations.
- Oh fuuuuck of. There are books based on actual KGB archives that were opened up. Rape of Berlin is well described. There are books about the actual bordelos attached to armies. Western armies. Soviet officers had army wives. Apparently they still do.
  There are countless accounts of people prefering Nazi soldiers to soviets. It is THE reason central and easter Europe hates russia.
  No data on rapes my ass. But pleeenty of data that soviets single handedly saved the world from Nazis.
  Get a grasp.
  
  Wow, so the released KGB archives show the tapes. I wonder what would happen if the Americans or the English did that too!
  Hatred of Russians by eastern Europeans is due to 30+ years of anti-communist propaganda. The fact that poles hate the USSR which liberated more than the very Nazis who genocided millions of them, shows this. And it wasn't the case 40 years ago.
  Polls in France after WW2 showed 70%+ of people saying it was the USSR who saved them from Nazism. Nowadays, it's 70% Americans. That's what Hollywood and propaganda do.
  
  Yup, propaganda. Sure.
  
  Yes. Propaganda.
  
  https://external-preview.redd.it/AhO5ZQ677V5Y9TmxXkvG9PfdoBCeDKR7gFKy84JiGTc.jpg?auto=webp&s=e727011a95ea3bbe987cc313ffdda0e38fae8c64
  Your link shows nothing. And no. Not at all propaganda. As a Polish citizen, fuck you. The entirety of my family hates the USSR. Including those who were alive for WW2. No propaganda about it.
  
  I can see it in my browser and my phone, but sure. It's a poll showing how in 1945, 55% of French people claimed the USSR freed them from Nazism. In 2015 it's 25%. That's exactly propaganda.
  When you are ready to spend 10% of the time you spend shitting on communism and the USSR, actually shitting on the Nazism which carried out actual genocide in your country, I'll be ready to talk with you. I'm sorry that the Polish foundational myth is based on Russophobia and anti-communism, it's impossible to have meaningful discussions of 20th century socialism with most polish people.
  
  https://lemmy.saik0.com/post/911795/3275325
  feel free to actually address it at your leisure. But you've shown that you're crazy anyway. So I don't think anyone has high hopes for you.
  I shit on both Nazis and Russia. Both then and now.
  
  I used that link not from a Reddit thread, I just know the graph and the easiest way for me to find it was to google-image-search it, and it's the first link that I could copy-paste, since it's more productive imo to link a graph than an entire study, since it's a comment section and not a scientific article.
  So basically, your whole argument is, "the graph is kinda sus and I don't trust the source, probably russian propaganda, I hate Russia and I hate Nazis". Not the strongest rebuttal in my opinion.
  Regardless. Notice how your phrase isn't "I hate Nazis and I hate the USSR and I hate the modern Russian government". You can make the distinction between Germany and Nazis, but you can't make the distinction between the Russian governments at different times and the nation as a whole. This proves further my point that your hatred is more Russophobia than actual historical criticism of the actions of governments.
  Suddenly you only go as far back as WW2, not to the German-occupied regions of Poland before and during WW1. We forget about those because they weren't Russian, don't we? Those pesky friendly Germans in western Poland, who cares, nothing happened before Nazism, the important thing are the evil Russians. But of course we remember the Poland under the Russian Empire! Because that actually aligns with the contemporary Polish foundational myth!
  Never mind that the Bolsheviks granted Poland the legal right to secede in 1917 immediately after the October revolution, and Poland used that power to immediately proceed to invade the similarly recently independent Ukraine and even some soviet lands because of nationalist conceptions of historical borders. It's somehow all the fault of Russians after all, isn't it? Much better to forbid communist parties in Poland while you have literal Nazis in parliament using fire extinguishers against Jewish symbols!
- I will let you know that you constantly excuse and support ultracapitalist nazi regimes. That makes you a nazi.
  
  Tell me one I'm defending
- I also only rape within the average of my demographic
  
  What's your point? Every rape is to be condemned and prosecuted. What isn't fair is making up claims about the amount of rapes by a certain demographic and not backing that up with extensive evidence. That exactly what racist people do against immigrants, and that's what Nazis did against soviets.
  
  Prosecuted ? Yes, war, famously rule-of-law kind of situation...
  
  My point is it should be

Imagine thinking the Russian cowards were the main factor in Hitler’s loss 😂😂😂