Is it simply over-correcting in response to western anti-communist propaganda? I’d like to think it’s simply memeing for memes sake, but it feels too genuine.

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      It is okay to be categorically wrong about a historical time period. It wasn’t Molotov in that phase. Molotov replaced Litvinov, who was the foreign minister of the USSR until 1939. Litvinov was the proponent of allying with the West against Germany. (For what it is worth Litvinov likely would’ve signed the Pact with Germany anyway.) But Stalin supported him, and even after being dismissed wasn’t even disgraced.

      The important subsequent development here is that Britain and France then actively tried to support Finland against the USSR during the Winter War while still technically at war with Germany, who was also supporting Finland. The Phoney War was a real thing that played out, after all.

      Unless these are too minor of details.