Why is pro-Stalin propaganda still alive and sponsored while Stalin himself was responsible for more murders of people especially on the European Left than any other person or organisation? Is this holocaust less important? This is what everybody can learn now about the beginning of the Second World War from the English language version of the Wikipedias article on the Soviet Union. Can we let editing of such important entries to unidentified groups, working on ideological or propaganda basis? Could any serious institutions be interested in what is published there? Facts and general human categories of thinking (no matter if you support the Left or Right) should be similar when talking about crimes which should not be minimized like holocaust cannot be minimized. Here is how the Soviet actions are shown: - ethnic cleansing during Polish Operation of the NKVD never happened; - atrocities inflicted by Soviet state in 1939-40 (aggression, occupation, killings, deportations, cooperation with Germans) never happened; - any Soviet crime is justified as delaying Hitlers attack; - Stalin did exactly what UK and USA did getting into non-aggression pact; - Stalin never cooperated with Hitler in 1939-41; - Stalin never helped German military and economy to develop faster and get stronger; - it was not important that Soviets invaded Poland, Romania, Finland and Baltic states; - the war started in 1941; - any Soviet misconducts can be justified by hostility of other countries. - in spite of what Stalin was saying before 1941, he did not prepare his army for attacking the West (there was no changes in organization, equipment, also terror and purges within its military command did not start). Below you can find everything what was written about the period of 1938-1941 at the Soviet Union entry. [...] In the beginning of World War II, after the United Kingdom and France rejected an alliance with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, the U.S.S.R. signed a non-aggression pact with Germany; the treaty delayed confrontation between the two countries, but was disregarded in 1941 when the Nazis invaded, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of combat in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the cost of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at intense battles such as Stalingrad. [...] 1930s [...] The late 1930s saw a shift towards the Axis powers. In 1939, almost a year after the United Kingdom and France had concluded the Munich Agreement with Germany, the USSR dealt with the Nazis as well, both militarily and economically during extensive talks. The two countries concluded the German–Soviet Nonaggression Pact and the German–Soviet Commercial Agreement in August 1939. The nonaggression pact made possible Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bessarabia, northern Bukovina, and eastern Poland. In late November of the same year, unable to coerce the Republic of Finland by diplomatic means into moving its border 25 kilometres (16 mi) back from Leningrad, Joseph Stalin ordered the invasion of Finland. In the east, the Soviet military won several decisive victories during border clashes with the Japanese Empire in 1938 and 1939. However, in April 1941, USSR signed the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact with the Empire of Japan, recognizing the territorial integrity of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state. World War II Although it has been debated whether the Soviet Union intended to invade Germany once it was strong enough,[32] Germany itself broke the treaty and invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, starting what was known in the USSR as the Great Patriotic War. The Red Army stopped the seemingly invincible German Army at the Battle of Moscow, aided by an unusually harsh winter. [...] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union#World_War_II
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:31:04 +0000
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