Reply #174: Surely you jest [View All]

[Art_from_Ark]

Stalin was busy eradicating people in his own country, including during this pogrom from 1931



He had no more love for the Jewish people than Hitler did.

At the same time, Stalin had no love for the Finnish people, either, and he invaded their country to turn it into another Soviet "republick". He ended up stealing 25% of Finland, and deporting or arresting the Finns who had been living there. Why the hell would Finland want to fight WITH a country that had just invaded them and caused so much grief?

And surely you don't believe that the Americans would have come to their aid? Because they didn't.

Whether or not the Finnish people had any love for Hitler, Nazi Germany was about the only country that offered to help Finland expel the invaders. So it was a bargain with the devil, to fight the devil. The enemy of my enemy, and all that.