A Nazi-Soviet conspiracy directly sparked the war Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were obviously the principal architects of the Second World War, but below find the lesser-known story of how the march to global war was encouraged, abetted and supplied by the USSR. What these boosters ignore is how the world’s first communist state was also instrumental to ensuring that a devastating global conflict broke out in the first place. Victory over fascism remains the USSR’s signature achievement - and the triumph is often used to justify the worst repressions of the Soviet state. In the words of the Marxist British historian Eric Hobsbawm, “the victory over Hitler’s Germany was essentially won, and could only have been won, by the Red Army.” Article content T-34 tanks from the era of the Second World War drive through Red Square in May, 2021 in preparation for Victory Day celebrations.
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