--- Nick Cooper 625 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Both Hitler and Stalin had territorial ambitions on Poland, but while
> Katyn proved that the Soviets could be just as brutal as the Nazis,
> they were not ideologically comparable.  The signign of the
> non-agression pact came as a complete surprise to the rest of Europe,
> simply because of previous German antipathy to communist Russia, and
> vice versa.  It's obvious that both countries readily agreed because
> each wanted to buy time against the other - Germany to avoid the WW1
> scenario of a war on two fronts, and the Soviet Union to enable it to
> build up defenec against a fully-expected German attack.

You guys need to get life and stop watching the history channel.

:-)

-Craig

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