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Originally Posted by James_Joyce [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is how I know you don't know shit about WW2.

Germany and the Soviet Union both knew that their ideologies were mutually exclusive. Both were planning on the destruction of the other. Stalin was purging and doing all of his crazy shit to get the Soviet empire into fighting shape.

Hitler pre-emptively struck Soviet troops which were massing for invasion along the German-Soviet border. There was no "poking the bear" or grand mistake like you learned in middle school. There was strike first, or be struck. If Germany hadn't made an effort to be on the offensive and burning Soviet capital cities before they could organize for war, Germany never would have stood a chance against the Soviets, who had the benefit of vast material support from abroad when compared with Germany.

This entire mythos stems from the Germany as a mad dog fabrication. Germany neither instigated WW2 nor made insane, rabid aggressive decisions. The country was backed into a corner, like every country is that attempts to govern based on the will of its people instead of the will of international finance.

Oh my.