• TheLastHero [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    reality, if even just a small number of countries listened to the USSR (Poland and Romania, or Britain and France), and formed a military agreement

    They had an agreement! The French literally had a military alliance they “reluctantly signed” with the USSR in 1935! Including Czechoslovakia too! But the goddamn liberals were too anti-communist to follow through and literally got millions killed over it.

    • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.netM
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      “the reluctance of the British and the French governments to sign a full-scale anti-German political and military alliance with the Soviets led to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact”

      Wonderful line from the Wikipedia page you linked that explains it well.