112 Gripes About the French

Re:112 Gripes About the French by bennysomething on Saturday July 17, 2021 @11:13AM (#27866334)

True but the USSR was ally of Germany, two dictator states started world war two.

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Re:112 Gripes About the French by FabHK on Saturday July 17, 2021 @12:18PM (#27866818)

The USSR and Germany concluded a non-aggression-pact in 1939 with a secret amendment to divide Poland and the Baltic states between themselves. This late became known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (or Hitler-Stalin-Pact, or Nazi-Soviet-Pact). With the Sowjet occupation of Bukovina in 1940 and definitely the German attack on the USSR ("Operation Barbarossa") in 1941, the pact was defunct.

In December of 1941, after Pearl Harbour, the US entered the war, and then you had the main combatants in place:

The allies with the USSR (Stalin), USA (Roosevelt), British Empire (Churchill), France (de Gaulle), Republic of China (Chiang Kai-Shek), against

The axis with Germany (Hitler), Italy (Mussolini), and Japan (Hirohito).

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Re:112 Gripes About the French by Intermernet on Saturday July 17, 2021 @11:35AM (#27866494)

What history have you been reading?

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Re:112 Gripes About the French by bennysomething on Saturday July 17, 2021 @11:52AM (#27866630)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_P...

Also USSR pretty much annexed eastern Europe after the war, in a way they are the only country that won anything out of ww2.

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Re:112 Gripes About the French by invincing on Saturday July 17, 2021 @11:51AM (#27866627)

I think it's a reference to this pact:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...

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Re:112 Gripes About the French by bennysomething on Saturday July 17, 2021 @11:52AM (#27866636)

Ha! Think we posted at same time.

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