Oligo

I was just telling this as an example how things can actually sometimes work out. It was good that two people of questionable sanity (Hitler and Stalin) just kicked the crap out of each other instead of (mostly) somebody else. Unfortunately a huge lot of their soldiers had to die, because of their insanity.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">not sure about that  i was always under the impression that as the germans moved east to take control of europe  that they went the russian way too and russia was purely defending itself, from the german advance.<span id='postcolor'> I'm sure you know that in the beginning of WWII the soviets and germans both invaded Poland and sort of divided it between themselves (so soviets did a little invading themselves). Then they made a sort of alliance (The Ribbentrob Treaty) not to attack each other. In the officially accepted version of history, Hitler has been blamed to be so stupid that he entered a two-front war by invading Soviet Union after the treaty had been in place for a while. So was Hitler stupid or was Stalin about to breach the treaty by attacking west, so germans had to do a pre-emptive strike? Why else would soviet forces be in attack posture (a documented fact)?