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No, the ground was stalling for time to prepare for war, with a German Nazi establishment who was openly anti-communist and anti-USSR.

The "anti-democracy" communists did more to get rid of Nazis and fascism than all of Europe and US combined (the latter, especially, came late to the party, with token gestures like Normandy, and have since used movie after movie to instill in popular culture the idea they "won the war"). And had a much bigger toll.

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Please don’t spread historical revisionism, the Soviets were perfectly fine with Nazism until it has turned against them. They teamed up with Nazi Germany to invade Poland together and even held talks to formally join the Axis, ffs.

And if it weren’t for the monumental material support in form of the US-provided lend-lease arrangement, the Nazis would’ve conquered the Soviet Union and carried out a genocide that’d have dwarfed the Holocaust.

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