What do you think National Socialism got wrong?

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[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Stalin did attack Poland but the Polish guarantee only applied to Germany. They never would have activated it against the Soviets.

It didn't help that Germany making the move first to invade Poland, confirmed their suspicions of who to wage war with.

No because the knives were out for Germany. There was way to change that and the Allies were determined to destroy Germany because they were a threat to the Anglo-American world order. There wasn't some secret PR strategy that could have changed that.

The Cold War that came right after WW2 is proof that the Allies would have fought Communism at some point. Germany throwing itself into the middle of both enemies, instead of trying to turn one side against the other, was a giant blunder.

Says who? Did lend lease end when they invaded Finland? The Baltics?

The Soviets rejected the Marshal Plan and weren't allowed to join NATO. They were never going to be friends forever.

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Maybe that "cold war" was all arranged to create a looming threat in order for both poles of power, Western and Eastern, politicians to garner growing political power?

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Considering we had the nuclear arms race, especially after the USSR stole the secrets to technology from the Allies, that sounds like a very risky gamble.

In the short term, they got to divide the world into capitalism vs communism. But none of that power would matter if the Cuban Crisis went wrong and they both nuked each other. Or same with the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

If anything, this makes my post more correct. WW2 was the last time opportunity anyone could have declared war without turning the whole planet radioactive.

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The problem with these statements is that they require belief in separate leadership in each pole of power.