Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Russians: thoughts on Germans of WW2" video.

  1. Modern Russian reality
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  2. In Russia most people are believing in Soviet myths about this pact
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  3.  @WeareChaoS  Well, look, any state, and even more so a totalitarian state, justifies itself and presents itself as right. The USSR and Germany, having signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, committed a monstrous crime against humanity. However, Soviet newspapers could not write the truth to their citizens, although in the USSR the most popular newspaper was called "Pravda" ("True"). Like Orwell. So, the USSR's position on the pact is that it was supposedly necessary. That the USSR allegedly could not but sign this pact, because Germany and the USSR were enemies, and the USSR in 1939 was allegedly afraid that after the conquest of Poland, Germany would attack the USSR, so it was necessary to sign a non-aggression pact so that Germany would not attack the USSR after the seizure of Poland, well, we will divide the spheres of influence, we will move away the border is closer to Berlin. However, inconsistencies already begin here. First of all, Germany was the initiator of the negotiations. That is, Germany first of all needed a non-aggression pact with the USSR, and not the USSR itself. This contradicts Soviet history textbooks, which say that the USSR was afraid of war with Germany, and therefore was forced to sign a pact. If Germany so wanted to attack the USSR after the capture of Poland, Germany would not have initiated negotiations on the pact. The second point is that Germany would not have attacked the USSR in any way, because before the partition of Poland, Germany and the USSR did not have a common border. Before the shameful Soviet-Finnish war, the Soviet army was considered the strongest in the World. In 1939, the USSR had more tanks than the whole world combined. The USSR had 15 thousand tanks, Germany had 3 thousand, France had 4 thousand, Britain had 1.5 thousand, Japan had 1.5 thousand, the USA had about a thousand, Italy had 2 thousand. Other countries didn't really have tanks. And Germany was afraid of war with the USSR, because Germany wanted to sign a non-aggression pact with the USSR, Germany would not have attacked Poland if the Molotov-Winthrop pact had not been concluded. In fact, the USSR dissolved the hands of Germany. Hitler was afraid to repeat the First World War, when Germany was at war with half the World on several fronts, and was crushed. Hitler did not want to attack the USSR, and even if Hitler had attacked the USSR in 1939, after the seizure of Poland, Germany would have been doomed, because after the invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany. Britain, France and the USSR would have crushed Germany by 1942. And by concluding the Molotov-Winthrop pact, Stalin provided Hitler with security from the East, and allowed the Allies to scatter, after which Hitler went to war on the USSR itself. The third point concerns the peacefulness of the USSR, which allegedly was so afraid of war with Germany that it was forced to sign a pact. Firstly, in the USSR, the state ideology was the World Revolution - the aggressive military spread of communism. During the Finnish War and the invasion of Poland, Soviet newspapers called it a campaign to liberate Finnish and Polish workers from capital. Secondly, in 1938, the USSR itself tried to start a war with Germany, tried to sign a military alliance with Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia was annexed by Germany without a fight, but the USSR really achieved the conclusion of a military pact with Czechoslovakia, and Romania even gave a corridor for 400 thousand Soviet soldiers to be sent. But, the war in 1938 did not take place, the Allies surrendered everything to Hitler without a fight. Well, the cherry on the cake is the Moscow negotiations of the summer of 1939. August 1939 - Germany brings troops to the borders of Poland, the war between the Allies and the Reich is about to begin. However, both the Allies and the Reich were concerned about the neutrality of the USSR. The Soviet army, as I have already said, was considered the strongest in the World. The Allies and the Reich were afraid that the USSR, seeking to spread the World Revolution, would take advantage of the bloody war in Europe - in 1939, both in Berlin and in Paris, they thought that the war would be protracted and long, and that the USSR, using the war in Europe, would hit the weakened Germany, France and Britain, and seize the whole Europe. Germany was also afraid that the Allies would be able to pull the USSR over to their side, and the Allies were afraid that Germany would pull the USSR over to its side. And for the USSR, fascists and capitalists were enemies. Therefore, in 1939, the USSR negotiated simultaneously with Germany and the Allies. Negotiations with the Allies failed, and the USSR agreed with Germany. And many historians believe that the USSR just signed a pact with Germany, hoping that the Germans would shake up on the Maginot line, Europe would be exhausted by the war, and then the Soviet army would pass through the ashes. This theory was expressed by the Russian historian Viktor Suvorov back in the 90s in his book "Icebreaker - who started World War II?". In fact, Stalin used Hitler as such an icebreaker to break into Europe. And this is very similar to the situation between Russia and China now, only instead of the USSR, China, and instead of Germany, Russia. Instead of Hitler, we have Putler. Shortly before February 24, 2022, Putin and Xi met in Beijing, where Russia and China signed cooperation agreements, China publicly stated that it opposes NATO expansion. China is neutral to the Russian invasion, and while the West is distracted by Ukraine, China has already extended its military influence to the Solomon Islands, not far from Australia. When Russia, like Germany, will be divided into West and East, Moscow will build the wall, historians in Western Russia will write a book "Icebreaker. Putin."
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