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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.

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