• ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca
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    7 hours ago

    It’s an interesting “what if?” in history, but it assumes the Germans negotiated that pact in good faith to assume there would ever be a situation in which they did not break it. In reality, expansion to the east to secure Lebensraum was always part of the plan. If they hadn’t attacked in 1941 they would’ve done so later, but it was always going to happen lest Hitler lose face.

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      7 hours ago

      I would agree with you that Germany was always just using the pact as a means of buying time. Either way, it’s a fuck up of the highest order.