02-25-2017, 10:26 PM
(02-25-2017, 09:09 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(02-25-2017, 04:51 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: I saw it, and I agree with you. As I mentioned in the Bannon thread, it is fairly easy to imagine a scenario where the West allied with fascists against the Communists rather than the other way round, in the same way that we propped up right-wing dictatorships during the Cold War.
Hitler was far more aggressive and engaged in conquest than the Soviets were.
Which is why we allied with Stalin vs Hitler, and not the other way round. Had Germany ended up with a different sort of far-right figure (more like Horthy, perhaps) and the USSR one more committed to the idea of world revolution (Trotsky?), it is not difficult to imagine a different sort of WWII.