Gotcha, so you would’ve let the Nazis take all of Poland, with all of the consequences of that, such as extending the Holocaust to further ground. The Soviets were doing all they could to prepare, so this just reads as you preferring Poland be sacrificed so the Soviets could have maintained “moral purity.”
What part of “they tried to forge an alliance with Poland to protect against Nazi attack, which Poland declined, and then prevented the Nazis from taking all of Poland and extending the Holocaust to all of Poland” was confusing for you? They did try to prevent the invasion, Poland hated the Soviets more than they feared the Nazis.
They didn’t, they prevented the attacker from taking all of Poland. The goal of Nazi invasion was to grab land and labor, to colonize Poland, not to just attack Poland. Preventing more people from being colonized by the genocidal Nazis is a good thing.
The Nazis would have taken all of Poland had the Soviets not forced them to honor the non-aggression pact, and Britain and France were doing jack-shit other than a naval blockade. You’re either saying the Soviet Union should have attacked Nazi Germany there and then when they were weaker than Germany and had no alliances, or that the Soviet Union should have left Poland to the Nazis. The former is horrible strategy, the latter is holocaust trivialization.
Gotcha, so you would’ve let the Nazis take all of Poland, with all of the consequences of that, such as extending the Holocaust to further ground. The Soviets were doing all they could to prepare, so this just reads as you preferring Poland be sacrificed so the Soviets could have maintained “moral purity.”
I would’ve liked to see USSR try to prevent the invasion from happening instead of joining it.
What part of “they tried to forge an alliance with Poland to protect against Nazi attack, which Poland declined, and then prevented the Nazis from taking all of Poland and extending the Holocaust to all of Poland” was confusing for you? They did try to prevent the invasion, Poland hated the Soviets more than they feared the Nazis.
“Well we tried to form a formal alliance but you didn’t agree to it, so that means we’ll join your attacker.”
They didn’t, they prevented the attacker from taking all of Poland. The goal of Nazi invasion was to grab land and labor, to colonize Poland, not to just attack Poland. Preventing more people from being colonized by the genocidal Nazis is a good thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
The Soviets didn’t “join the Nazis.” After Poland fell, the Soviets went in to prevent the Nazis from colonizing all of Poland.
Nazis were invading Poland from the West and USSR joined them later by invading from the East. It’s pretty cut and dry.
The Nazis would have taken all of Poland had the Soviets not forced them to honor the non-aggression pact, and Britain and France were doing jack-shit other than a naval blockade. You’re either saying the Soviet Union should have attacked Nazi Germany there and then when they were weaker than Germany and had no alliances, or that the Soviet Union should have left Poland to the Nazis. The former is horrible strategy, the latter is holocaust trivialization.