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Skvortsov
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Alex Medvedev
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27.05.2020 21:48:39
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WWII; Современность;
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But no war is inevitable until it has begun. What made a Euro-
pean war “only a matter of time” was not Hitler’s occupation of
Prague but Britain’s guarantee to Poland. Had there been no war
guarantee, Poland, isolated and friendless, might have done a deal
over Danzig and been spared six million dead. Had there been no war
guarantee of March 31, there would have been no British declaration
of war on September 3, and there might have been no German inva-
sion of France in May 1940, or ever. For there was nothing inevitable
about Hitler’s war in the west.
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Had Britain never given the war guarantee, the Soviet Union
would almost surely have borne the brunt of the blow that fell on
France. The Red Army, ravaged by Stalin’s purge of senior officers,
might have collapsed. Bolshevism might have been crushed. Com-
munism might have perished in 1940, instead of living on for fifty
years and murdering tens of millions more in Russia, China, Korea,
Vietnam, and Cuba. A Hitler-Stalin war might have been the only
war in Europe in the 1940s. Tens of millions might never have died
terrible deaths in the greatest war in all history.