• NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2 years ago

    *The joint Soviet-Nazi invasion of Poland

    I have a compulsion to remind people that the Soviets weren’t the good guys in WWII that they loved to pretend to be.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    so this happened.

    Don’t whitewash history.

    Nazi Germany and the USSR made plans to invade and partition Poland, and then they followed through on those plans.

    Stalin and Hitler were allies right up until Hitler backstabbed Stalin with Operation Barbarossa.

    Edit: the title has been updated since I posted this

    • PugJesus@kbin.socialOPM
      11·
      2 years ago

      I certainly wasn’t trying to whitewash history. Rather the contrary, since Soviet forces engaging Polish forces during the Nazi invasion is rarely discussed.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        If you’re interested in accurately portraying historical events, I’d change the last part of the title to:

        during the coordinated invasion of Poland by the USSR and Nazi Germany, 1939

        Because it was most definitely coordinated at a strategic level.

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          The Soviet and Nazi invasion

          Idk, that seems pretty clear that the soviets and nazis were working jointly. I don’t think the title would be improved by adding extremely specific language that changes the meaning very little.

          • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            It sounds like they invaded at the same time, not together, and a “joint invasion” clarification in the title would be great.

            • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              I was going to find an example of a country being invaded by two major powers that weren’t working together and yeah, there’s not very many, but its a churlish point to make that misses the actual argument. I do see your point. Calling it ‘whitewashing’ is a bit of a stretch, but I can see how it underemphasizes the degree to which the nazis / soviets were coordinating.