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Valentin Falin: Russia's Baltic policy before World War II
By: Valentin Falin on: 01.06.2005 [05:45 ] (2969 reads)
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by Yasis on 01.06.2005 [07:34 ]
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The Soviet-German non-aggression pact (the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) signed in the night of August 23/24, 1939 was precipitated long before that fateful night. If it had had a choice, Moscow would have teamed up with Britain, France and other countries in the struggle against the Nazi threat. But the available documents show that the Soviet leadership tried in vain to convince London and Paris to abandon the policy of appeasing the aggressor. Britain hoped to put Russia and Germany against each other and come out unscathed, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes wrote in his diary.
Much has been written about Britain's appeasement policy towards Germany during that period.
But the main issue of Britain's true strategy in pursuing that policy has not been widely discussed.
The real reason for "appeasement", of course, is to create conditions for Germany and Russia to clash with each other. To play off Hitler against Stalin, while the UK stood quietly in a corner as her two rivals finish each other off.
Britain's fate however took a strange twist as history showed.
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by tigershark on 04.06.2005 [07:17 ]
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Real history at last!UK&France found out too late that the Nazis had outwitted them but the Nazis later ran into the Revolutionary minded peoples of the USSR.The Japanese Army&Navy later made Britain look silly in SE Asia and Indian Ocean.
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