This is the miseducation we are talking about. U.S.S.R. Is just but about Russian Empire which Bolsheviks and Lenin decided to divide them into Soviets to win against the Romanov Dynasty and the Transitional government after the February Revolution.
Stalin was a Bolshevik and there never existed a Ukranian state. Ukraine was a creation of Bolshevik when Lenin liberated Western Ukrainians (essentially Rus who had been colonized byLithuanian Polish Common wealth ) Austrohungerain Empire and joined them with Russians from South Eastern New Russia.
Stalin never ever made a deal with Hitler. Molotov did and it was because 20 years earlier Poland had snatched parts of Western Russian Empire and pretended to make it their own. Baltic states were part of Russian Empire too.
You certainly dont know Nazism . Hitlers war from begining was against Slavs he felt betrayed by Britain and French and thats why he went against them.
U.S.S.R was already winning the war before U.S. provided their motor cars to Them. They had better weapons and skills inches to Berlin.
Are you mistaking the USSR with Russia today? USSR was a multi-national state. The leader of the USSR, Josef Stalin was a georgian. His successor, Nikita Khrushchev was Ukrainian.
Also stating USSR won the WW II alone is a big joke. You first forget to state the amount of weapons and help the USSR received from the US during the war.
On another note, had Hitler and Stalin not made the secret pact known as the Molotov Ribbentrop pact in August 1939 to divide Poland and the Baltic states among themselves, the WW II would not have happened as it did. USSR was a late victim of the Nazis, but also played a huge role in building the Nazis. To
In 1940s nobody in Europe believed USSR would win the worldwar. France and Britain were big Colonialsts . They couldnt engage a war with Germany. USSR came out as victor and World super power . That is war for you.
25% of Ukraine is now part of Russia. Fait accompli just like Crimea . Its usually better to avoid such scenarios rather than resolve them . Its evident there is failure in leadership from diplomatic point of view.
United Nations is dead . All we hear is threats here there without anything tangible happening . The world is staring at an economic crisis. The so called Economic migrants are living in self deceit. Of nothing will happen where as they are being supported either feom back home or abroad.
People forget in a war there are no winners or losers only survivors. The Russian Military are even more hardliners than Putin. Putins mistake was not listening to them in early 2000s during the Energy boom and refusing to send Military after request from Yankuvich during Maidan Revolution.
Scare mongering. Nobody in Europe believes Putin will start a nuclear war. He too will loose everything. Am not even sure if the Russian military leadership would allow such a thing to happen.
Putin lost the war in Ukraine the minute he lost momentum after a few weeks of starting the war.