petrescatraian

Can we stop rolling this utter bullshit around? No one was willing to fight another prolonged conflict with Germany after the massacre that WW1 turned to be. They tried to appease Germany in the hope that diplomatic efforts would prevent further bloodshed. Stalin was in bed with Hitler. Hitler offered Stalin everything he wanted: the ability to exert his imperial ambitions in Central and Eastern Europe unhinged, all while pounding from the West in order to keep us busy. France also offered security guarantees to Romania agains the Soviets but didn’t honour them. Which imperialists were the soviets fight with in the 1930s?

All while threatening him it could be either that or 1000 students would be killed? Hmmm, it would likely be a hugely unpopular action and lots of people would call your regime illegitimate and would want you dead :)

The Allied effort on beating the Nazi war machine was a collective effort, and no single country has the right to take the full credit for it, imo. Not the US, France, not even the UK (which, however, is to be appreciated for standing up to Hitler during the harder times, even under a conservative government) - as a Romanian, I would argue that much less the USSR, which forcefully imposed the abdication of our king and backed the communist’s terror regime against its political opposition.

Had this collective effort not existed, we would probably be today under the influence of the 3rd Reich and with probably more dead than there were already.

Poland, Romania, Finland, the Baltics (if I’m not mistaken) - they all suffered the effects of that “non-agression”

@Deceptichum something tells me the authors of the book also drew attention to that

Even worse, it’s Romanian

@PugJesus skill issue; change the teams on time and you’ll be fine.