Apparently I’m now a shitlib for not buying into this disgusting tankie propaganda that it was all the Wests fault and Stalin had to ally with Hitler.
For a mod who loves to ban others for bad jacketing, they sure have no problem doing it to other anarchists.
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The Context:
On the topic of Cowbee’s summary, one of the articles linked there is by this person. The article concerns the question of whether Poland was invaded by the soviets in 1939 link. I was curious about the author’s argument, so I read it.
As it turns out, the crux of the author’s argument was that the Polish government exiled itself to Romania on September 17th, and so the soviets could occupy eastern Poland because Poland technically had no government at the time. After all, it couldn’t do anything from Romania, as it was a neutral country. EXCEPT the Polish government went to Romania AFTER the soviets invaded, and it was IN REACTION to the soviet invasion. So, because the author got the chronological order of events wrong, his argument kinda falls apart.
I don’t want to suggest that the author doesn’t know history, but I strongly suspect that he argues in bad faith by intentionally manipulating facts and omitting important information. I don’t think you should treat this author as an authority on the topic, especially since this isn’t his only outstanding claim that has been questioned by people versed in the field of Eastern European history. Among other things, he’s also a Holodomor denier.
100% guarantee that pointing this out somehow turns into “well actually your history book is wrong because it was written in English.” It’s a comedy of fallacies with them…
I’ve argued plenty against the tankie nonsense. They blatantly ignore every historical fact that disagrees with their narrative. Like, Leftist parties were quite literally torn apart over the perceived Soviet-Nazi alliance. But in their eyes, it was always clear that Stalin, total genius btw, was just masterfully playing Hitler and his stupid Nazis and was just buying time, which btw he had to do because the Allies were so evil they wouldn’t recognize that Hitler was a bigger threat to humanity than Stalin, which they obviously should have realised through the time machine in FDRs basement or something.
Recently that Yogthos fella did a similar thing, claiming the Baltic states voted in the referendum in favour of staying in the Soviet Union… in a referendum that didn’t ask that question, and wasn’t even held in the Baltic states. Funnily enough they never replied to that as they probably realised there was no arguing against that. Instead, they just downvote brigaded my comment.