Hail the Hitler-Stalin pact!

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>  Charles Brown wrote:
>>
>>  >  Soviet-German non-Agression Pact is and was eminently supportable.
>>  >It helped saved the world from Nazism.
>>
>>  Wow. You don't see this argument made every day. Reading it is a bit
>>  like walking out the door and seeing a mastodon dining on a dodo.
>
>I have not close knowledge of what went on within the SU between the
>signing of the pact and the German invasion. But if that period helped at
>all, then the claim that the treaty was crucial to the war against
>fascism would be almost a truism. The burden of proof would I think be on
>those that wanted to claim one of the following:  (a) that the U.S. would
>have defeated German even if the SU had collapsed, (b) that the SU would
>have been able to defeat Germany in any case or (c) that the SU made no
>use of the time it saved. In any case, the events of 1937-41 were complex
>enough so that it is silly to say one particular judgment is obvious.
>Until someone gives strong reasons to the contrary, I would say Charles
>is probably right.
>
>Carrol

Hasn't there been a debate on this just recently in a thread titled 
"Allies against fascism?"?  Anyway, on things Soviet, I agree with 
John Mage on everything he has said here.  Hell, I endorse in advance 
everything he'll say on the subject + how he will say it (for I trust 
his style as well).

Yoshie