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.
The Ban:
The Context:
That semantic error does obscure how the Nazis gaining power directly caused the USSR to terminate the program. Which unfortunately allows for the misinterpretation that the USSR started a tank school for the Nazi regime. They started it with Germany because both entities at the time saw a benefit to defying Versailles. The German Communist Party wasn’t yet outlawed and held like a quarter of the Reichstag at the time.
The failed strategy of the USSR was to undermine the victors of WW1, and hoped the communist wings of Europe would prevail.
They did not.
My point was that the situation surrounding the closure of the school was many-faceted. I appreciate you expanding upon that, though I fear you may have fallen into the same misunderstanding as they by fixating on your own interpretation of one phrase as critical, rather than the actual content of the message (that the complexity of the political motivations behind the creation and closure of the school was the reason I brought it up at all)
Yeah I wasn’t really disagreeing as pointing out how even such a semantic thing can lead to big misinterpretations given the complexity of the whole period.