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Whatever excuses the Soviet leader later offered, and although his armies never fought in partnership with the Wehrmacht, the Nazi-Soviet Pact established a collaboration which persisted until Hitler revealed his true purposes in Operation Barbarossa’.

Though Stalin feared Hitler and expected eventually to have to fight him, in 1939 he made a historic decision to acquiesce in German aggression, in return for Nazi support for Moscow’s own programme of territorial aggrandisement. Because of the manner in which the global struggle ended in 1945, with Russia in the allied camp, some historians have accepted the post-war Soviet Union’s classification of itself as a neutral power until 1941. From 23 August 1939 onwards, the world saw Germany and the Soviet Union acting in concert, twin faces of totalitarianism. On Stalin’s ‘devil’s bargain’ with Hitler: ‘If Stalin was not Hitler’s co-belligerent, Moscow’s deal with Berlin made him the co-beneficiary of Nazi aggression.

Their claims upon the moral high ground were injured, however, by the fact that they declared support for embattled Poland without any intention of giving this meaningful military effect’. OL16488840W Page_number_confidence 95.90 Pages 826 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200911175107 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 519 Scandate 20200909040454 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780007338092 Tts_version 3.On the outbreak of war: ‘France, Britain and its dominions were the only major nations to enter World War II as an act of principle, rather than because they sought territorial gains or were themselves attacked. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:42:54 Boxid IA1928316 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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