.@HeerJeet @MattZeitlin & western allies scared of a Nazi-Soviet pact… ooops! They did that!!
@MattZeitlin Even during wartime alliance, Stalin afraid Allies would hook up with non-Hitler Nazis and attack USSR. Not entirely paranoid
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@delong@HeerJeet@MattZeitlin Yes, it was entirely paranoid post-June 1941. That he would be attacked as an ally of Hitler was not.
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@HeerJeet@MattZeitlin Conversely, western Allies worried Stalin and Hitler would negotiate a separate peace, resume their old friendship. -
@HeerJeet@MattZeitlin A great preoccupation of the US and UK was to keep Stalin in their tent, and the USSR absorbing casualties vs. Nazis.
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