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      Yeah, the Liberals only destroyed the Nazis and Imperial Japan in WWII, saving the USSR in the process.

      Not to mention jailing far right nutballs whenever they step out of line.

      Much worse than running gulags for anarchists. /s

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        The USSR did 90% of the work in beating the Nazis though. As for jailing the far right, it sure doesn’t look like it, just look how many of them are running around encouraging stochastic terrorism against the LGBT community.

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            The west also did a ton of non-aggression pacts and friendship pacts with the Nazis. Also; Poland was fascist at the time too.

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              Poland was not in a good place politically, but it wasn’t Fascist, and the USSR didn’t just make a friendship pact with the Nazis, it went to war alongside them. Stalin was an opportunist who made a dumb decision, not a principled anti-Fascist.

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                https://www.jstor.org/stable/1849240

                Poland also did the exact same thing as the USSR did when it allied with Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia. I don’t deny that Stalin was an opportunist but nonetheless, despite its failures it was the USSR which did the lion’s share of warfare against the Nazis and ended the holocaust. As for not taking part against Japan, they did invade Manchuria and would have turned their attention on the rest of Japan had they not surrendered to the USA (indeed the USSR entering the war against them was the biggest reason why they surrendered).

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                  (indeed the USSR entering the war against them was the biggest reason why they surrendered).

                  No, it wasn’t. This is straight-up Soviet propaganda.

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                    Yes it is. Obviously they were losing anyway and bound to surrender eventually but the USSR entering crushed any hope they they could somehow salvage the situation or keep some of their gains in China.