Why did Stalin do what he did in World War 2?

Answer 1

No, if there is one person who should shoulder more blame than any other individual it would be Adolf Hitler. Even so, such blame cannot possibly be placed on the shoulders of one individual alone, even though it was his order to invade Poland that started the actual hostilities in Europe. Stalin tried to keep the war from breaking out along the Soviet Union's border by entering into a Non Aggression Pact with Hitler, but this was out of self interest rather than a desire of peace in Europe. In an indirect way, Stalin contributed to the start of the war. The Non Aggression Pact allowed Hitler to use all of his military strength against his western enemies first. If Hitler had to divide his forces between the west and the east from the very beginning, he might not have had the strength to attack Poland and then France.

Answer 2

He did what he did in order to extend Communism and the 'Red Scare'. He followed the foot steps of many empire leaders in the past, like Adolf Hitler, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte. He followed Hitler's military growth pre-WW2, and pushed the Soviet Army into countries in southern and Western Asia, as well as parts of Eastern Europe. They pushed their way into Poland and Germany after WW2- which lead to the division of Germany.

Answer 3

Stalin was leader of the USSR during World War 2. Stalin and the USSR entered WW2 at first when they invaded Eastern Poland with Germany in 1939 but the USSR didn't get fully involved until the Germans attacked the USSR on 22nd June 1941.

Answer 4

I'm quite sure Germany did not have monopolies or capitalism on its list of priorities when it invaded Poland "für mehr Lebensraum" (for more living space) for its people. I'm also quite sure that monopolies and capitalism were not on Hitler's mind when he decided that his adopted homeland (Germany) was destined to dominate Europe and that he was to be the leader of the Aryan race. Hitler saw capitalism as a Jewish ideology, and wanted it eradicated.

Of course Stalin would never admit that he and his fellow tyrant, Adolf, agreed to divide Poland between themselves, which is what escalated Japan's invasion of China into a world war. The Soviet Union let Germany invade Poland first, so that the Soviets could invade two weeks later and make it look like they were doing it for purposes of defense.

Answer 5

In 1946, Stalin gave his personal view as to what was the cause of the Second World War. He believed it was not an accident or a fault of any particular leader (s). The faults existed, however, the war arose in reality as the inevitable result of the development of the world economic and political forces on the basis of monopoly capitalism.Stalin did not consider the German-Russian Non-aggression Pact, with its secret clause that gave the Soviets the right to invade Eastern Poland after Hitler declared war on Poland.

This of course has been refuted by most WW 2 historians.

Stalin's position on the war,of course, falls back on Marxism. Marx analyzed all major world events through his own political ideology. By 1946 the Cold War had already started. Stalin had no choice but to say ( whether he believed it or not ) that world capitalism was the cause of the war.

Stalin was living in a capitalist world and his goal was to destroy capitalism. Pretending to be a Marxist- Leninist, Stalin sought world dominance on his own terms. Few Marxists saw Stalin as being one. For them, Stalin preferred his own brand of Marxism-Leninism, which was to lead a totalitarian socialist world.

Answer 6

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