Pre-ww2 Germany was recovering after the nazis ended the weimar. Then Hitler decided to shake hands with Stalin and join his ideological cousin in picking a fight. Because deranged leftists always prioritize personal power over the prosperity of their nation or lives of their people.
Hitler was a faggot, and his stupidity destroyed Germany forever.
German-Soviet cooperation predated Hitler by quite some time, the 1922 Treaty of Rapallo between the early Weimar gov't and Lenin had already established extensive economic & military ties between the two for a decade before the Nazis' rise (with the Germans getting to build various secret training academies & factories/testing sites on Soviet soil to circumvent the Versailles demilitarization terms). As for Molotov-Ribbentrop, that was just a case of Hitler exploiting the Entente/Allies' fecklessness & duplicity: the Soviets were the most militantly pro-Czechoslovak great power in the lead-up to Munich, but obviously their hopes for any anti-Nazi coalition (one they wanted because they weren't blind and deaf either, Mein Kampf was a published work and not some top-secret document that no Soviet spy could have possibly read) were frustrated by the Western Allies dropping Czechoslovakia like a hot potato and Poland jumping in to annex the Zaolzie region. Of course Stalin would've decided that if the Western Allies were willing to throw a fellow democracy with good relationships under the bus, he'd have better luck trying to find a better deal with Hitler, and Hitler meanwhile understood that short-term cooperation against a common enemy in Poland beats risking pushing the Soviets back onto a pro-Allied course early on.
Recall that it wasn't until after Munich that Stalin replaced his pro-Allied and anti-German Soviet foreign minister, Maxim Litvinov, with Molotov. Poland could hardly present itself (despite the best efforts of Allied propagandists) like some innocent lamb after grabbing Zaolzie under much the same rationale as Hitler used for the Sudetenland and its own efforts to restrict & suppress Ukrainians (suffice to say that while it was disproportionate, it wasn't like there was no reason whatsoever for the Ukrainians' own extremely brutal massacres of Poles in Galicia-Volhynia during WW2). Hitler merely exploited an opening created by the retardation, weakness and greed of his enemies, and neither he nor Stalin (who would've attacked Germany if Hitler hadn't attacked him first) were under any delusion that theirs was a lasting agreement which should have long outlived the elimination of their most obvious mutual enemy; the funny mustache man's big crime here was failing to crush the Soviets with his backstab.
Pre-ww2 Germany was recovering after the nazis ended the weimar. Then Hitler decided to shake hands with Stalin and join his ideological cousin in picking a fight. Because deranged leftists always prioritize personal power over the prosperity of their nation or lives of their people.
Hitler was a faggot, and his stupidity destroyed Germany forever.
German-Soviet cooperation predated Hitler by quite some time, the 1922 Treaty of Rapallo between the early Weimar gov't and Lenin had already established extensive economic & military ties between the two for a decade before the Nazis' rise (with the Germans getting to build various secret training academies & factories/testing sites on Soviet soil to circumvent the Versailles demilitarization terms). As for Molotov-Ribbentrop, that was just a case of Hitler exploiting the Entente/Allies' fecklessness & duplicity: the Soviets were the most militantly pro-Czechoslovak great power in the lead-up to Munich, but obviously their hopes for any anti-Nazi coalition (one they wanted because they weren't blind and deaf either, Mein Kampf was a published work and not some top-secret document that no Soviet spy could have possibly read) were frustrated by the Western Allies dropping Czechoslovakia like a hot potato and Poland jumping in to annex the Zaolzie region. Of course Stalin would've decided that if the Western Allies were willing to throw a fellow democracy with good relationships under the bus, he'd have better luck trying to find a better deal with Hitler, and Hitler meanwhile understood that short-term cooperation against a common enemy in Poland beats risking pushing the Soviets back onto a pro-Allied course early on.
Recall that it wasn't until after Munich that Stalin replaced his pro-Allied and anti-German Soviet foreign minister, Maxim Litvinov, with Molotov. Poland could hardly present itself (despite the best efforts of Allied propagandists) like some innocent lamb after grabbing Zaolzie under much the same rationale as Hitler used for the Sudetenland and its own efforts to restrict & suppress Ukrainians (suffice to say that while it was disproportionate, it wasn't like there was no reason whatsoever for the Ukrainians' own extremely brutal massacres of Poles in Galicia-Volhynia during WW2). Hitler merely exploited an opening created by the retardation, weakness and greed of his enemies, and neither he nor Stalin (who would've attacked Germany if Hitler hadn't attacked him first) were under any delusion that theirs was a lasting agreement which should have long outlived the elimination of their most obvious mutual enemy; the funny mustache man's big crime here was failing to crush the Soviets with his backstab.