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Originally Posted by Loric
Hitler definitely wasn't communist. However, that wasn't why Stalin fought against him in WWII..
Hitler launched a 'surprise attack' against the Soviet Union called Operation Barbarossa in order to "eliminate the Soviet Union as a military power, eliminate communism, create living space, and create strategic access to valuable resources."
Due to tension between the two nations prior to this, however, the Soviet Union had been preparing for "strategic counter-offenses" so they were able to mount a defense fairly quickly.
The axis forces had around three quarters of their troops on the eastern front, however, so the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union formed a military alliance against Germany, and jointly invaded axis-controlled Iran shortly after.
That's why Stalin fought Hitler. Not simply because the Soviet Union was a communist country.
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Trust me, I know Hitler's goals and the whole background of WWII. I just wanted to get the point across, that if Hitler was actually communist, Stalin wouldn't have done anything to him. Stalin wanted communism to spread all over the world, and fighting against a communist leader would make no sense. They were "allies" for a while, namely during the invasion of Poland, but that's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that Stalin did want Hitler out because fascism was a threat to communism. He wanted to create an anti-fascist league with the Allies in order to prevent fascism from spreading around. Heck, he even participated in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists, yadda yadda. I know they didn't merely fight because one was communist and the other one wasn't.