
Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler so he could have half of Poland, the only reason they ever fought the Nazis was bc Germany didn’t have enough oil and North Africa was not going well, another little anecdote was when the red army was graping their way across Eastern Europe, they stopped right outside of Warsaw after the Polish Resistance retook the city to give the Nazis an opportunity to regroup and be reinforced so that there would be no resistance to their rule after the war
Yes exactly, he signed the pact because of his own expansionist ambitions, Stalin wanted to take all of Eastern Europe and he signed on with Hitler to accomplish that, the only reason they ever actually fought was because Hitler needed Stalin’s resources, they not actually agreed beforehand to coordinate their invasion of Poland, they weren’t friendly but they were certainly cooperative
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was far worse. It secretly divided Europe into spheres of influence for Nazi and Soviet annexation. A week later, they collaborated with the Nazi’s in the invasion of Poland, with the Red Army invading 2 weeks after the Nazis. Until 1941, the Soviets kept fueling the Nazi war machine with raw materials.