Did the Russians start it? Modern scholarship agrees on it
>>18401506I don't know what the book is about. But saying russia is responsible for wwii is pretty far fetched. yes, russian expansionism and ottoman economic and land implosion caused western nations to shat themselves and destroyed the old order with holy alliance and all that stuff. but german unification disrupted old order with the same manner.
>McMeekinLOL
>>18401506>>18401515WW1: Russia mobilized its forces after Austria attacked Serbia, turning a regional into a continental conflict, leading to Germany declaring war on Russia preemptively. WW2: Russia switched to anti-fascist rhetoric and positioned its forces in attack formation on the German border, leading to Germany declaring war on Russia preemptively.
>>184017041. So maybe Austria should’ve left Serbia alone instead of writing a check it couldn’t cash 2. The USSR in 1941 was in no position to attack the West. The Soviet Union was full of goodies Hitler thought Germany could take and hold by brute force.
>>18401722There's a debate that the Soviet defensive formations at the time were indistinguishable from offensive formations, because the only way they knew to fight was like the mongol horde. Thus the Germans might have mistakenly thought that the Soviets were trying to attack them.
>>18401722>So maybe Austria should’ve left Serbia aloneMaybe Serbia shouldn't have sheltered anti-Austrian terrorists.
>>18401727>because the only way they knew to fight was like the mongol horde
>>18401722>maybe AustriaYou are defending a war based on nothing but racial solidarity.Would you also say Hitler is justified in his wars?If Poland didn’t want to be invaded, maybe they shouldn’t have arrested Racial Germanics for anti Polish activity???You ever think of that huh chud?
>>18401515it really argues for joint responsibility (and for Tsarist thinking being very motivated by wanting to seize Constantinople and in making sure none of the balkan powers get it first)
>>18401704Operation Barbarossa proved to the world that Hitler was truly a retarded little bitch. He signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with the Soviet Union and then his nerves immediately got the better of him and he invaded the USSR as a kneejerk reaction, bringing the entirety of Nazi Germany with him.As for World War 1, you could split the blame five ways between Germany, Russia, Serbia, and Austria-Hungary. And whoever was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
>>18403215Operation Barbarossa is by far the coolest thing that has ever happened on this boring shithole planetWe should be grateful that Hitler did it
>>18401506No, the jews started it.
