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Convenient of Stalin to leave out the part where the Soviet Union initially entered the war on Germany's side. Operation Barbarossa wasn't merely an German invasion of the USSR, it was also a backstab of an ally.
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@valiantvanadium6996 That makes complete sense. Long-term occupation of Germany was never going to be cheap, and Britain was essentially bankrupt in 1945.
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@davidpryle3935 At the time the war started, Germany was actually even less ready than Britain and France. That was even more true in 1938, when Britain and France foolishly agreed to let Hitler take Czechoslovakia without a fight. With better leadership, Germany could have been defeated by 1941 at the latest, and WW2 wouldn't have actually been a "world war".
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Giving France an occupation zone in Germany meant fewer British troops needed and fewer British pounds spent. A seat on the UN Security Council meant an additional non-Soviet vote on the Council.
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@bigenglishmonkey Paul Reynaud, the Prime Minister of France, was a vehement advocate for union with Britain. Unfortunately, Petain was all-in for surrender, and many others in the cabinet thought the union was just a British attempt to steal France's colonies. Reynaud mistakenly thought this meant the whole cabinet had decided on surrender, and resigned. Which unfortunately made the traitor Petain the new Prime Minister.
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Marshal Foch warned in 1919 that the next war would be in 20 years. He didn't live long enough to see that he was correct almost to the day.
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@matthewjones39 The Maginot Line itself wasn't the problem. The problem was the mentality that it alone would be enough to prevent any German invasion. Maginot himself never had any such illusions, he fully intended that the line would simply require any invasion to be concentrated into a narrow area, which would allow France to in turn concentrate its own army in opposition. He also intended for the line to extend all the way to the channel at Dunkerque, but political pressure from Belgium prevented that. The Belgians were afraid that if the entire French border were fully fortified, France would simply abandon them to their fate in the the event of a German invasion. The idea that Germany would be able to so quickly bypass Belgium's own fortifications was never anticipated.
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