Re: [Pen-l] Proletarian _Inter_nationalism

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:
> 
> raghu wrote:
> > What do you make of the brief period Aug 1939 - Jun 1941, when the
> > USSR made an alliance with the Nazis? I understand it created quite an
> > uproar among communists in the West who felt shocked and betrayed and
> > didn't know what to make of it.
> 
> A lot of the CP members dropped out during this period. On the other
> hand, for some on the left, this the beginnings of the development of
> the (bogus, to my mind) "totalitarianism" theory, which posited the
> idea that the Nazis and the CP of the USSR were basically the same
> kind of animal.

The USSR did fight a real and important war with Japan during this
period, won it, and got its troops back to the west just in time for the
German invasion. It's also argued by some that the USSR would have
united with France and England had they been willing to fight for
Czechoslovakia. My knowledge is skimpy, so don't take this as at all
authoritative.

Carrol

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