You cannot possibly say that they did not have ideological conflicts when like half of Nazi rhetoric was about how communism was ontologically evil and also a jewish plot. Like Hitler’s explicit position was that slavic people should be wiped from existence or at least permenantly enslaved. The Soviets knew this when they were the last to sign a non-aggression pact. Hell, they knew this many years before that.
The Soviets understood fascism to be ideologically opposed to their existence and the fascist understood communism to be a threat to the continued private ownership of production from which their real power was sourced. They could not have been more ideologically opposed. I am assuming you think they are not because both visibly wield their authority internally?
Well no, there were also serious ideological conflicts. They were both genocidal ethnic supremacist authoritarians though, so Russians are taught that the primary thing the Nazis did wrong was attack Russia, but not the reason why they attacked Russia.
People forget the whole Russia helping the Nazis thing. They only separated because Germany wanted their land too not due to ideological conflicts.
You cannot possibly say that they did not have ideological conflicts when like half of Nazi rhetoric was about how communism was ontologically evil and also a jewish plot. Like Hitler’s explicit position was that slavic people should be wiped from existence or at least permenantly enslaved. The Soviets knew this when they were the last to sign a non-aggression pact. Hell, they knew this many years before that.
The Soviets understood fascism to be ideologically opposed to their existence and the fascist understood communism to be a threat to the continued private ownership of production from which their real power was sourced. They could not have been more ideologically opposed. I am assuming you think they are not because both visibly wield their authority internally?
Well no, there were also serious ideological conflicts. They were both genocidal ethnic supremacist authoritarians though, so Russians are taught that the primary thing the Nazis did wrong was attack Russia, but not the reason why they attacked Russia.
if I used the word “oversimplification” here in context, it might rip a hole in the universe.
but, yeah.