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A writer for the Federalist makes a valid point that the Soviets were never truly opposed to fascism, which is as totalitarian an ideology as the former. For example, when Poland was invaded:

The two nations agreed that Poland would be split in two, and the two agreed on the spheres of influence in Eastern Europe. Germany would have influence in Hungary and Romania, while the Soviets would gain Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, and parts of Romania. The agreement also had a trade deal: Germany would supply the Soviet Union with manufactured goods (weapons), while the Soviets would provide Germany with food and raw materials (such as oil).

While German troops took Norway and Denmark, the Soviet Union sent troops into Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Finland. When Nazi Germany launched its massive offensive in the West against France, Great Britain, and the Low Countries, the Soviet Union provided German troops with food. When the Nazi panzers began to move into North Africa, defeating British troops, and as the German Air Force bombed British cities like London, the Soviet Union provided oil to keep the Nazi war machine advancing.

And Soviet Russia allowed Germany to murder Poles:

In 1940, the Soviets killed 22,000 Polish officers who were captured the previous year in what would become known as the Katyn Massacre. The Soviet Union denied this massacre, as they denied many of their other atrocities during the war. They finally acknowledged it in 1990. Also in 1990, when Poland was finally a democracy, the Polish government—which had been in exile since its invasion and occupation by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939—could finally return home.

The time between 1939 and 1941 has largely been forgotten by many on the left, who only see the Soviet Union as the nation that beat Nazi Germany in World War II. But the legacy of the Soviet Union—and correspondingly, Communism—should be corrected. The Soviets were Nazi collaborators who saw Nazi Germany as a tool to expand their power and influence, as well as to destroy the West. Without Soviet support in the early years of the war, Germany would not have gotten so powerful. It is estimated that 70 percent of German imports, during 1940, came from the Soviet Union.

It's vital to remember that antisemitism at time was just as prevalent in Russia as it was in Germany. Yet it's also clear the left doesn't care about the terrible influences of nazism any more than they do about communism, so I figure they're as lenient on fascism as they are on communism.

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Labels: anti-semitism, communism, Europe, germany, Moonbattery, poland, political corruption, racism, Russia, Scandanavia