Never forget who stood shoulder to shoulder with Hitler in 1939 In russia, this part of history (where the greatest Nazi collaborator or all times -- Joseph Stalin -- signed a secret pact with Adolf Hitler to partition Poland) is whitewashed, actively ignored, swept under the carpet, etc. When did WWII start? Everyone knows — 1939 But not in the russian version of events. They like to believe that the war started in 1941 because that convincingly ignores Nazi-Soviet alliance. For those in the back, let me say it again: Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia started WWII together as allies! Just imagine what the world would be like if russians learned their bloodstained history, if they atoned, the way Germans did, for what they’ve done. If, instead of rehabilitating Stalin, russians dug into their NKVD/KGB records and acknowledged that two terrible evils could’ve co-existed in the world. But no, russia prefers a simple lie over a complicated truth. Everyone who opposes russia must be a nazi — that’s the story they tell themselves to this day… When the choice is to atone or double down on malice, invade neighbours, or commit war crimes, we know what russia goes for. Every. Damn. Time.