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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: This is a repeat for those who ignored it.
Message-ID: <11196@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 15:10:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 26 15:10:16 1985
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> In article <686@mit-vax.UUCP> csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) writes:
> >Don Black speaks:
> >
> >Here's my real question:
> >>     People forget that Hitler was aided and abetted by Uncle Joe Stalin.  
> >>Without the help of the Soviet Union, it would have been difficult for Hitler
> >>to rearm Germany to the extent that he did.  Not to mention that the 
> >>international corporations openly supported Hitler in his war efforts.
> >
> >I was under the impression that Russia was our (God forbid) ally in WW2
> >and that she fought AGAINST the Nazis. Did Stalin feel that killing a
> >lot of German soldiers was helpful?
> 
> The Soviet Union was an ally of Hitler's until he had the stupidity to 
> attack them too late in the summer.  Under the Molotov Treaty, the 
> Soviets got to take half of Poland as spoils of the Nazi victory.  The
> Soviet Union also conquered Finland.  Let us not forget the Warsaw uprising,
> when a quarter of a million Poles died fighting the Nazis while Comrade
> Stalin's forces stood by and did nothing.  And the U.S. and Great Britain
> were so nice to stop at the Elbe and let Eastern Europe be 'freed' by
> the Soviets.
> 
> >
> >Thanks in advace for your answers!
> 
> You are welcome.
> 
> >-- 
> >Charles Forsythe
> >CSDF@MIT-VAX
> 
> Craig Anderson
> csanders@ucbvax

*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
The Soviets played two ends against the middle at the beginning of WW2.  
They were 'friends' with the West, and they played up to Hitler, till of 
course Hitler turned on the them.  Until that time the Soviets were enjoying
the spoils of war, i.e. Finland, half of Poland.