In World War II, if you mean the switch from Nazi German-allied to pro-Allied side, it is a combination of the bad blood of the Russo-Japanese war, Hitler's own race-based agenda [in which the Slavs were inferior, so they were well into Slavic states such as Czechoslovakia and Hungary, so they had easy access to the Soviet borders at the time], and especially the fact that Nazi Germany invaded them! The war was declared only hours before the invasion; but Stalin and his staff were so shocked by it, they could not believe it! Thus, for a good amount of time, the Germans went through the Ukraine, receiving sometimes warm welcomes [Stalin racked up his own high score of bodies in the Ukraine, particularly the rich and "pesky" private farmers]. This, of course, went to the wayside once Hitler and his race-conscious armies did a bit of "ethnic distillation" of their own to the population.
Thus, the Soviets whom were neutral, went to VERY, VERY, FLIPPING HOSTILE in only a few weeks.
After World War II, the reason why the Soviets and the U.S. had a serious drop in good relations, is simply the fact that the West had made its animosity towards the Soviet system very clear. The Allies tended to see the Soviet part of the war, as "better than my blood". When the Soviets realize how little their sacrifice mattered, and as funding went to war-torn states, but not any to the new Soviet satellites or the Soviet Union under the Marshall Plan; the Soviet Union got the hint. "The capitalists used us for their war"; which made Soviet war morale skyrocket, sending them from trustworthy ally to betrayed friend.
And as you can imagine, a betrayed friend is a lot harder to convince to trust again than just a traditional enemy, thus the Soviets always laid on the anti-West side because they felt the West had a continuing history of devaluation and exploitation [in this case they were the exploited, but remember, they saw capitalism as exploitation, thus capitalism became Westernism through guilt-by-association]
On 22 June 1941 the Soviet Union was attacked without any declaration of war or any warning by Germany. To speak of the Soviet Union switching alliances is completely misleading. Joncey
The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union wanted war.
the Soviet Union brokedown on 1989!
No. Russia was a member of the Soviet Union until 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed.
On 22 June 1941 the Soviet Union was attacked without any declaration of war or any warning by Germany. To speak of the Soviet Union switching alliances is completely misleading. Joncey
There were 13 unions at the time the Soviet Union was part of the Axis until they switched sides to join the Allied Forces.
no, its not! The Soviet Union is Russia.
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No, they sat on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain.
No, they sat on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain.
The Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union was created in 1938.
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union ended in 1991.
today, there is no soviet union they disbanded in 1991
The Soviet Union wanted war.
A soviet republic was a territory of the union (much like states today). USSR (soviet union) stands for "Union of Socialist Soviet Republics"