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Trajan Octavian Titus said:Why didn't France and Britain declare war on the Soviets when they invaded Poland together with Germany but did declare war on Germany? And please no Nazi Jewish global conspiracy theories I'm looking at you Lucid and you Imp.
Trajan Octavian Titus said:Why didn't France and Britain declare war on the Soviets when they invaded Poland together with Germany but did declare war on Germany? And please no Nazi Jewish global conspiracy theories I'm looking at you Lucid and you Imp.
TimmyBoy said:He and many communists believed in world communist revolution.
Comrade Brian said:Stalin did not believe in Communist revolution, he believed in something called "Socialism in one country", he was extremely nationalistic, not the pattern of an internationalist, Stalin sometimes denounced revolutions, and anyways, the only real part he also played in the Russian Revolution was robbing banks for money, and I believe he was arrested eight times. Now Trotsky on the other hand...
Anyways on with the question of the thread.
Britain and France didn't declare war on the USSR because Germany invaded first, and they thought it could be defeated easily because they thought it weak, because of many restrictions they put on it in the 1st WW, the USSR was industrializing rapidly, and they thought it would take more to defeat it.
Comrade Brian said:Stalin did not believe in Communist revolution, he believed in something called "Socialism in one country", he was extremely nationalistic, not the pattern of an internationalist, Stalin sometimes denounced revolutions, and anyways, the only real part he also played in the Russian Revolution was robbing banks for money, and I believe he was arrested eight times. Now Trotsky on the other hand...
Anyways on with the question of the thread.
Britain and France didn't declare war on the USSR because Germany invaded first, and they thought it could be defeated easily because they thought it weak, because of many restrictions they put on it in the 1st WW, the USSR was industrializing rapidly, and they thought it would take more to defeat it.
Trajan Octavian Titus said:Why didn't France and Britain declare war on the Soviets when they invaded Poland together with Germany but did declare war on Germany? And please no Nazi Jewish global conspiracy theories I'm looking at you Lucid and you Imp.
Plain old me said:Now, I'm no expert on this, but I would reckon that it was similar to the idea that Britian didn't want to overstretch herself the people have already mentioned. As far as I'm aware, Britian didn't invade Poland to try to win her back, but instead focused on defending France. Because the USSR was no threat to France, why risk making another, theoretically pointless, enemy? Instead you just declare war on Germany, who is the only immediate threat to your greatest ally, and prepare for the invasion of France.
Trajan Octavian Titus said:Actually Germany didn't declare war on the French, France and Britian declared war on Germany after they invaded Poland, however, the Germans and Russians both invaded Poland together so it seems to me that if the violation of Polish soveriegnty was the catalyst for the war then it would only make sense to declare war on the Soviets as well as the Germans.
Mark O'Neill said:Even if Britain and France had tried to help Poland, it wouldn't have mattered - Poland was lost as soon as the first German soldier crossed the border - and even more so as soon as Soviet troops crossed the other border. The Poles did put up a pretty good account of themselves - the German's lost more aircraft than they shot down (This is to Biplanes, BTW), and most of the Polish Air Force they destroyed on the ground were old trainers, and obscelescent (sp?) aircraft. 'What we could have done with a few squadrons of Hurricanes' is oft quoted by polish fighter pilots.
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