“ In this connection the victory of fascism in Germany must be regarded not only as a symptom of the weakness of the working class and a result of the betrayals of the working class by Social Democracy , which paved the way for fascism ; it must also be regarded as sign of the weakness of the bourgeoisie , a sign that the bourgeoisie is no longer able to rule by the old methods of parliamentarism and bourgeois democracy , and as a consequence , is compelled to accept that it is no longer able to find a way out of the present situation on the basis of a peaceful foreign policy and , as a consequence , is compelled to resort to a policy of war ” ( J . V . Stalin , Problem of Leninism , Report to XVII Congress of CPSU ( B ), P682 , Peking , 1976 )
Actually imperialist forces like Britain and France , were not at all interested for peace , They did not oppose when Italy attacked and seized Abysinia in 1935 , when in 1936 Italy and Germany organised military intervention in Spain , when in 1937 Japan after seizing Manchuria involved North and Central China , occupied Peking , Tientsin and Shanghai , when in the beginning of 1938 Germany seized Austria . Britain and France wanted to overlook these , the USA wanted Japan to wipe out the communists . All of them together intended that the Axis powers developed by Germany , Italy and Japan be satisfied with their hold on the USSR and certain parts of China and deserts of Africa . The Munich Pact was in essence a Pact in that direction . It was connivance with the aggressor powers . The Socialist Soviet Union had time and again asked for a “ Collective security ” against the aggressors to Britain and France only to be rejected by them by taking up the so-called position of non-intervention , a position of “ neutrality ”. They took a non-interventionist position on Spanish Civil war ( 1936-1939 ) while Germany was openly backing Fascist Franco to oust the Republican Gov ernment and the Comintern f ormed the “ International Brigrade ” to help the Republicans . Thus all efforts of the socialist USSR to stop the aggressors from their advance and to establish peace was thwarted by Britain and France , even though in those countries as well as in the USA all progressive forces wanted to ally with the USSR to stop war .
In March , 1939 Germany started Preparation for attack on Poland . The USSR once again wanted an alliance and made it clear that its forces would come in help of Poland . In May , 1939 , the attempts were made to negotiate an alliance and preparation to help Poland . But Britain and France first took a delaying tactics , finally backed out and Poland rejected Soviet help .
It became clear that the imperialist powers were trying to direct the Axis power against socialist USSR . So , finding no other alternative , but to prepare to resist
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Fascists on the basis of its own strength , the USSR made an agreement , known as Non-aggression Pact , more popularly Molotov-Ribbentrop poet on 23 August , 1939 .
Very soon on September 1 , 1939 , Hitler obliged the appeasers by attacking Poland and the World War II formally started . Actually , Italy , Spain and Japan were not only dissatisfied , but also opposed the Pact . It was such a diplomatic manoeuvre that the so-called allied forces , the Tory backers of Hitler led by Chamberlain in London were caught on the wrong foot .
It is not possible to describe in details the events that followed . But the time between Sept 1 , 1939 and 22 June 1941 when Hitler attacked the USSR , on the one hand the Axis powers were gaining control of large parts of Europe , Africa and Atlantic parts of Europe through one after another blitz which the allied forces could not withstand . But the USSR with its neutrality carried on a chess game which blocked advance of Germany in a number of fronts . This has been aptly described by Anna Louis Strong in her book “ Stalin Era ”. She said , “ Hitler saw that the USSR , as a neutral , was the immediate barrier in his path to world rule . In the twenty-two months of the Non-Aggression Pact , the USSR had three times blocked the Nazi advance . The Soviet march to Poland had checked for a year Hitler ’ s advance to East ; the Soviet return to Bessarbia had pulled him back from invading Britain ; and Moscow ’ s power politics in the Balkans and Baltic delayed him at the Dardanelles ”.
So on June 22 , 1941 Fascist forces attacked the USSR . How the Socialist USSR defeated the Fascists
“ War is politics by other means ”. Politics needs an ideology . The Socialist Soviet Union fought the war on its own politics which was based on its ideology of Communism- the ideology of proletariat . We have already discussed in relation to this policy of collectivisation and its Five-Year Plans and how deeply entrenched was the democracy of the people in the Soviet Union . It was a socialist country where “ new men ” had emerged who did not live for themselves but live for the society as whole , for well being of world proletariat . They knew very well that they would have to def end socialism not for themselves , but for the world proletariat who at that time had gained one thing to lose that was the only socialist state in the world . So , not only the soviet people but also the international proletariat stood up against fascism for a determined fight to finish the dark forces in the world .
The anti-Communists serving imperialist ideology at that time went on criticizing Soviet Union and Stalin for the Non-Aggression Pact without a reference to the pros and cons of events . Now a days it has become
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