Paul Mason attempts to propagate typical neoliberal revisionism, immediately gets destroyed on Twitter
Well-known British journalist, Paul Mason, attempted to propagate some typical neoliberal revisionism on Twitter. Then, immediately got destroyed by a storm of responses from people who, apparently know the historical facts.
Mason tweeted:
Eighty years ago Stalin signed his pact with Hitler, dividing Poland and green-lighting the Nazi conquest of Europe. Here's how the Daily Worker (now Morning Star) reported it. Stalinism destroys everything it touches. Never forget.
Ben Norton responded:
Stop regurgitating right-wing fake history. The USSR offered to send 1 million troops to invade Nazi Germany in August 1939. The UK and France rejected the offer. When Socdems and Trots blame the bogeyman of "Stalinism" for WWII, it's Holocaust revisionism.
The Soviet Union wanted to send 1 million troops to crush Nazi Germany before WWII. But the UK only had "16 combat ready divisions, leaving the Soviets bewildered by Britain's lack of preparation". The UK wanted the Nazis to bleed the USSR. And it did, killing 26 million Soviets.
The Soviet offer to invade Germany was made BEFORE the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. It's the fault of Britain and France for rejecting the offer. The USSR didn't want to fight the Nazis alone—it didn't want 26 million of its citizens to die. UK and France did.
And if you don't mention the historical context of the 1938 Munich Agreement, when Britain and France approved Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland, you're fueling more Holocaust revisionism. The UK and France appeased the Nazis right up until the end.
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