• Edie [it/it/its/its/itself, she/her/her/hers/herself]@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Since we’re starting this debate again, I do wish to ask the people that think the Soviets shouldn’t have gone into Poland: what should the Soviets have done?

    With benefit of hindsight and access to whatever formerly-secret documents, what is the best course of action for them?

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      what should the Soviets have done?

      shouldve stayed put and get exterminated, it is unforgivable that they had agency and made a strategic appeasements with Germany 😔 however it was perfectly ok for the rest of europe powers to do it! 🤓

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      I mean, the obvious answer is instead of trying to divvy the sovereign nation between them, they should have stood up for them and defended them when the Nazis rolled in. Barring that, they should have liberated them, then left them the fuck alone. Even a stopped clock is right sometimes, this comparison is pretty clearly silly. They weren’t lamenting the lives of Nazis lost in the battle to push them out of Poland. They were lamenting the lives of the Poles after falling under the Russian boot, after the battles were won.