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The Hitler - Stalin Alliance

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Why Was The Hitler - Stalin Alliance Forgotten For Decades?

It reveals much about the nature of socialism and the real truth behind the phrase "pre-mature anti-fascists".

Michael Flores

Apr 27

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Photo: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov signing the Nazi–Soviet Pact, with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop directly behind him, next to Stalin

Stalin did not believe Hitler would go to war against him while facing Britain. Before the peace pact the Soviet Union was trading with Germany as well, but after the Molotov and Ribbentrop pact even some communists were shocked. The rhetoric went from hated enemies to best friends over night. Members of the various communist parties worldwide were not allowed to discuss or vote on it, just to obey Stalin’s directive.

There was a secret protocol between the two powers dividing up nations. Quote: On June 14, 1940, the very day the German army marched into Paris, Moscow finally decided to implement the Secret Protocol. Within a day or two it declared the total incorporation of Estonia and Latvia and Lithuania into the Soviet Union. Their governments were imprisoned or exiled. Many of their former officers were executed, and at least 25,000 of the Baltic peoples were deported to the Soviet Union. Hitler transported the German minorities in the Baltics to Germany on German ships.

Stalin ordered many friendly gestures toward Germany, including speeding up the deliveries of Soviet products there. He did not in the least react to a warning from Churchill about a prospective German attack against the Soviet Union. During the ten days before the Nazi invasion—all kinds of information about the German threat notwithstanding—Stalin did his best or, rather, his worst, to affirm his faith in Hitler and in Germany. I do not know of a single instance of such abject behavior (for that is what it was) by a statesman of a great power.

The German attack shocked Stalin into silence at first. (Molotov’s words after the German declaration of war were also telling: “Did we deserve this?”) Stalin’s first orders for the Soviet army were not to respond at all. It took him hours after the invasion—until noon—before he ordered the army to resist. Unquote

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When Stalin became allies with us many sins were forgotten, ongoing crimes ignored and the Soviet Union had a bonus- their propaganda could enter democratic nations freely. When Stalin ordered party members to stop calling Hitler a socialist the same party members who had proclaimed him a socialist called him a fascist. Stalin had used the term before against Leon Trotsky, it became a phrase for leftists to use against anyone they didn’t like.

As the extent of Soviet espionage became known, party members declared they were being persecuted for being pre-mature anti-fascists, but that claim could only work if the peace pact was forgotten, and the pact vanished from history. Until the fall of the Soviet Union, Eastern historians began studying the alliance (they had not been allowed to under the Soviet regime).

The “pre-mature anti-fascist” was excellent propaganda because it removed Stalin and Hitler’s alliance, it implied innocents were being punished in hunts for Soviet espionage agents just because they were anti- Hitler before anyone else, it was a win - win for decades. Even if it wasn’t factual.