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Originally Posted by kurtz
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Originally Posted by joea
Gents are we forgetting most of the ordinary Soviet soldiers were fighting an enemy that invaded their homeland, not for conquest (even if it happened after the war of course) and that more than a few Estonians not only collaborated but were in the SS as well.
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I'm not forgetting that but from the BBC;
After a pact between Hitler and Stalin, Soviet troops arrived in 1940 and Estonia was absorbed into the Soviet Union. Nazi forces pushed the Soviets out in 1941 but the Red Army returned in 1944 and remained for half a century.
Seems to me the Russians were collaborating with the Nazis:hmm: . |
True that was pretty unsavoury, but then Adolph and Joe both knew they would come to blows sooner or later, they were trying to buy time...not that it mattered to the Baltic Republics or Poles. Then too, many in the West were rather favourable to the Nazis...including in the UK as well as France.