historically illiterate and completely ignore the state of affairs in 1939. Namely, they ignore the fact which has been extensively docipumenter by Mark Solonin - which is that in 1939 the Soviet Union possessed enormous military superiority not only over Germany but over all
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other powers put together. For example it had well over 10,000 tanks in every respect superior to those the Germans had. The same was true in aircraft etc. The German-Soviet “non-aggression pact” in 1939 was, as Solonin called it, a pact of nonaggression of Stalin against Hitler
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because no other aggression could take place at that time. Stalin got everything he asked for including (what is usually not mentioned in the West) the latest German military technology. Soviet engineers visited German factories and took not just the very latest German tanks and
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planes (several of each) but also prototypes of future ones. Hitler agreed to everything because he had really no card to play. And Stalin agreed to everything because his whole strategy was directed towards causing a war in the West between Hitler and the Anglo-French alliance,
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which he believed (in common with almost everybody else) would be long and exhausting for all sides making it easy for the Soviet Union to pick up the broken pieces. For this reason Stalin agreed to share Poland with Hitler. In fact, originally Stalin was going to take an even
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larger share of Poland but eventually agreed to take less (though still more than 50%) in exchange for Lithuania. In any case, it is completely ridiculous to imagine that Stalin would have done nothing at all innthe face of a German-Polish alliance whose aim is clearly to
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to destroy his empire. The Germans still needed several years to get near the military level of the Soviets (in Solonin’s words, the hare was catching up on the turtle but was still way behind because Germany started arming only in 1935) and the internal weaknesses of the Red
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Army became apparent only during the Finnish war. So Studnicki’s idea would have lead to an early Soviet attack on Poland, with Germany almost certainly doing nothing (assuming that the Soviets stopped at the German border, which they might not have done). History would certainly
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Thank you, fascinating.
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