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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Please clarify your position on Nazis being welcomed in Russia (was there a reason you referred to them as Soviets - a government that did not yet exist?) My history texts seem to have omitted that rosie relationship.
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Stalin and Hitler hated each other. They both used their uneasy peace to build troops and fight each other.
Stalin was content to let the Germans move West at the beginning of WW2 because he didn't believe his country was ready for a showdown. He preferred to remain neutral until he was ready.
Stalin was quite content defending his own borders and nothing else. It was Churchill and FDR that needed him to drive the Germans Westward and contain them.
As for the Russians welcoming the Nazis that's a new one on me. 
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