I love revisionist history. It is one of the funniest things that can happen, for those of us with knowledge of history anyway.
Three Nations were responsible for World War II. Japan and their Imperial Ambitions in Asia. Italy, and their Imperial ambitions in Africa. Germany with their Imperial Ambitions of Europe, and the world.
The First was Italy. In 1935 Italian forces invaded what is today Ethiopia. The members of the League of Nations were still dealing with the Depression, and were desperate to avoid another meat grinder war.
The lack of actions by the League began the era of appeasement that ended in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Hitler, accustomed to getting whatever he wanted did not believe the British and French would really go to war.
The Soviet action you speak of was taken when Poland was invaded. The war was already going by that point. Italy became an official belligerent the next year when France was on her knees from the Nazi invasion. Japan launched her invasion the next year, and World War II was begun. So who caused the war? You could say Hitler. And be mostly right. You could say Mussolini. And be somewhat right. You could argue the League of Nations and be fractionally right. But arguing it was the Russians ignores history and facts to the point of delusion.
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I love revisionist history" what did you find a revisionist in soviet - Nazi pact?
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Before that happened, this had already occurred. Japan had invaded Manchuria. Italy had invaded Ethiopia. Hitler had invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia. The Soviet pact was not the cause. Imperialist Ambitions of three militaristic and arguably fascist nations were. I say arguably because Japan did not really fall into the Fascist category.
There was going to be a war anyway. Italian aims in the Middle East. German desires of domination. Japan’s aims of empire. The war was certain. Soviet policy, short sighted and idiotic, of letting the Capitalist and Fascists wipe each other out was hardly to blame. It did not do anything to start the war, and honestly the absence of it would have insured the war happened anyway. Only Hitler would have attacked Russia next instead of France which would have had a much larger impact on the war. France would never be able to stop Germany. And France would have remained on the Defensive using the outdated lessons of the First World War. The Soviets would not have been able to field the T-34 and would have been defeated in 1940 without the pact.
A more honest read of the history would be that the Pact was the first in a long line of Strategic Mistakes made by Hitler. Anyone who read Mein Kampf knew that Hitler and the Nazi ideology rested on hatred of Jews and Soviets. That war was inevitable.