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  1.  @stanspb763  Written by Marksullivan: When you mention WW2, never forget Russia’s enthusiastic alliance with Hitler’s Nazi regime from 1939 - 1941. It is all documented in the (now public) “Secret Protocols” in the Molotov - Ribbentrop Pact. Poland was invaded not only by Germany. The Russians invaded from the East and partitioned Poland between them. And Russia’s occupation of Poland was brutal. Russia executed nearly 22,000 Polish officers and academics in the Katyn massacre. Russian documents declassified in the 1990s describe Russia’s atrocities in detail. The Russian army also herded thousands of Jews over the border to Nazi death camps. The number of Poles who died due to Russian repressions in the period 1939-1941 is estimated as at least 150,000. Russia also invaded Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Finland on Hitler’s orders. Finland fought Russia to a standstill - but the other Baltic states were occupied and crushed by Russia for the next 50 years. Russia also cheerfully profited by supplying Hitler with ammunition, fuel and raw materials so the Nazi war machine could defeat the French, bomb the British and sink American ships. If Russia had not helped Hitler so generously, but instead helped Poland - the Poles would have won their battle against the Nazis and Russia would never have been invaded. Then there is Russia’s pretend “outrage” that Europe and the USA are supplying Ukraine in its fight against Russian Fascism. Democratic nations will always see Fascists as the enemy. After Hitler eventually double crossed his Russia ally, Stalin begged for the British and Americans to help Russia fight its former Nazis friends. Even before the United States entered World War II in December 1941, America sent arms and equipment to the Soviet Union to help it defeat the Nazi invasion. Totaling $11.3 billion, ($280 billion in today’s currency), the Lend-Lease Act of the United States supplied needed goods to the Soviet Union when it switched sides from the Nazis to the Allies in 1941 until the end of the war in 1945. The substantial aid the USA sent included: 400,000 jeeps & trucks 14,000 airplanes 8,000 tractors 13,000 tanks 1.5 million blankets 15 million pairs of army boots 107,000 tons of cotton 2.7 million tons of petrol products 4.5 million tons of food On top of that, the British made their fleet available to deliver the aid. 30,000 British seafarers died to get the supplies through freezing U-boat infested waters to Russia, while British Airmen were stationed in Russia to conduct bombing missions to slow Hitler’s advance into Russia. Stalin begged the USA and Britain for help after his 2 years allied to the Nazis - and we delivered! (An interesting aside is that Russia refused to assist the USA fighting the Japanese until the last few days of that war. So, despite all the aid the USA and Britain gave Russia, if allied airmen in the Pacific war were forced to land in Russian territory, they were placed in prisoner of war camps by Russia.) Without Allied help, Russia would have lost WW2. The Russian dictator admitted this publicly. Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program at the November 1943 Tehran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. "I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." Of course Western Democracies will proudly continue to fight Fascism right into the modern day. So when Putin decided to embrace the Fascist dogma of racial superiority - Russia should have expected this humiliation. Unfortunately, Russia has a history of fighting on the Fascist side both in WW2 and in the current war. Russia’s dark history of their Nazi alliance is not taught in their schools. Most Russians simply do not know their shameful past. But we must remind Russia of its shameful past - and we must never let them forget again.
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