I know it's English but so often your words sound like a foreign language to me friend 
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Replying to @liminal_warmth
basically there was a ton of idealistic sympathy for the Soviet Union in the west leading up to ww2. western socialists hoped for a Soviet future after a crushing war against Hitler by the enlightened Soviets and then Stalin and Hitler made a deal to partition Poland
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Replying to @eigenrobot @liminal_warmth
this led many western socialists to become bitterly disillusioned eg the plot of animal farm was Orwell being really fucking salty about Stalin's betrayal
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Replying to @eigenrobot @liminal_warmth
anyway tldr yes it is a foreign language. Molotov was Russian and Ribbentrop was German
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Replying to @eigenrobot @liminal_warmth
worth mentioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie#Political_views_and_relation_to_the_Communist_Party …pic.twitter.com/WooPlLUYmd
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Replying to @eigenrobot @liminal_warmth
[harrison ford voice] it's all true
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Replying to @ndwpdx @liminal_warmth
am I understanding that he was anti-Soviet until the polish partition and then he became pro-Soviet until Hitler invaded at which point he became anti-Soviet again
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Replying to @eigenrobot @liminal_warmth
no, in those days the enemy was germany germany was a threat to ussr so get your war on when molotiv ribentrop happened, germany was no longer a threat to ussr guthrie became objectively lindburgian (germany is no threat to us stay out of it)
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to be fair to everyone the thirties were a rich minefield of ways to be wrong
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aaaahhhh I see ok
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