>>>So it solved nothing
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>>I disagree with your conclusion. Russia was going to expand anyway, the German defeat just made it easier.
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>Wasn't Hitler origianlly appealing to the UK govt to come help him fight communism? With a less distasteful German leader who knows, there might have been a concerted W European alliance to stop this, sort of like a "cold war"

Isn't interesting how the cold war divided Asia and Europe, and then the US came out of this as the sole superpower?