Just look at these figures:
These are the amounts of materials sent by the USSR to Germany. These materials no doubt allowed Germany to build up its military to attack Poland and start WW2 (and ironically attack the USSR).
You have not provided a source for the "figures."
Even when you do my question would be, can't the SU trade with Germany ?
If you blame that for strengthening Germany, then no trade can be done on this planet.
Had a Defence PAct been signed between the USSR and the Western powers then it would have created a very significant and powerful counterbalance to Germany that would have given it serious worries about starting WW2.
That's a theory. Clearly Stalin did not buy it because of the back-stabbing nature of the Western powers.
The USSR alone had the biggest military that worried Hitler to a point that he swallowed his ideological disgust against the Soviets to enter into a pact with them. Hitler needed an assurance that the USSR will not intervene against it when it invades Poland and Stalin gave it to him.
And Stalin needed assurance that Hitler wouldn't attack him, and Hitler gave it to him. Thus enabling Stalin to keep his country safe, at least that's what he thought.
What Hitler did not want was a 2 front war with the combined Anglo-French forces on the West and the USSR on the East. That's why he wanted the Pact with Stalin.
And what Stalin wanted was safety of his non-industrialized peasant country.
Pan-Slavism is an integral part of Russian nationalism. I guess you have to read more on this.
If by pan-slavism you mean uniting of Russia, ukr, belorus, then of course Yes.
If by pan-slavism you mean you mean uniting all Slavs, then No. This is what I meant in previous post in case not clear.
There are a lot of analysis on Putin's Pan-Slavism quest. But if you;re asking for a quote then I don;t know of any. This is the closest I can get:
"If we really say that [the Ukrainian people] are a brother people, and a brother country, then we are obliged to conduct ourselves as a close relative and help the Ukrainian people in this difficult situation," said Putin.
So you implied in earlier post that Putin wants to conquer all Slavs. And I asked when and where Putin said that and on What you are basing it. You couldn't give any answer to that, and you quote (without any link) Putin talking about Ukrainians as a brotherly nation (which they are), and construe it as a call to unite Slavs. Laughable.
The expansion of the USSR into Eastern Europe and Baltics has very little to do with communism as it was to reclaim territories previously part of Tsarist Russia.
That's a lonely position you got there. Even members who are loudly pro-Russia does not share that view, for good reason. You see communism was just a means to an end for the Russians. They needed an idea to change the prevailing corrupted system in Tsarist Russia so they embraced Marxism (never mind if Russia was not in the Capitalist stage invisaged in MArxism, Russia was mostly still in the Feudal stage at the time of the revolution if you follow the Marxist social development strata). They needed an excuse to justify their expansion to territories previously part of Tsarist Russia (not only Eatsern Europe but even the Baltic states and Finland), so they invoke the internationalist part of communism.
No. And I call BS. You need to get your facts straight before spreading false info.
The USSR especially in its earlier days was strongly anti-Russian.
Lenin was a Russophobe and looked at Russian culture, history and faith, with disdain.
Leaders like Krushchev, Stalin, Lenin etc weren't even Russian. An abnormally large percentage of Bolsheviks leaders were non-Russian, who viewed any attachment to culture and religion with disgust and contempt.
And considering that Russian Empire was torn to pieces (and land and population freely donated to others) and Russian culture and faith had to survive "underground" due to persecution and destruction of historic monuments and churches, your idea that SU was an element of Russian nationalism is hilarious to some and insulting to others.
