History Memes

Russia likely would not have joined the Allies

The USSR spent the previous decade trying to build an antifascist pact and was snubbed as the western powers signed their own non-aggression pacts with Germany. They pledged to send 1 million troops to invade Germany if the western powers would support them. Instead the western powers handed over Czechslovakia to Germany and Poland, hoping they would go east and deal with the greater threat, communism.

The USSR didn't sign a non-aggression-pact with Germany because they wanted their number one enemy to succeed, but because it was the only way to draw the western powers in against Germany. Hell Britain was only stopped from sending troops to invade the USSR during the Winter War on the side of the axis by Sweden denying them transit.