The USSR adopted a popular front strategy in 1934 Archived Message
Posted by Keith-264 on October 25, 2019, 10:32 am, in reply to "What's this? "The past belongs to Keith." Stick that on a T-Shirt. But he's wrong."
The trouble was that France and Britain doing a deal with the USSR to preserve the Treaty of Versailles meant relying on the Red Army, which was unthinkable. The only practical route into central Europe was via Poland, the possessor of the stolen lands of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, far to the east of the Curzon Line since the Polish Soviet War (1919-1921). Note that Poland did a deal with the nazis in 1934 to dish the Soviets. The British and French danced around all of the central and eastern European powers in the 1930s to avoid defending Versailles with their own people. Stalin turned the tables on the British and French but then the seegar blew up in his face in May 1940 when the long war of capitalist exhaustion ended in six weeks. It took another four years for it to really begin again, just when the Red Army had been bled white.
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