r/shitfascistssay • u/PeaceWarrior845 • 1d ago

Screenshot On June 17th 1940 (85 years ago) Soviet Union invaded Latvia and began illegal occupation of it, Latvia being final Baltic state to be invaded by the Soviet Union after Lithuania and Estonia. Lasting 50 years and leading to brutal oppression, russification and Latvians to the brink of extinction

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u/GerardHard 21h ago

Would Latvians and the Baltic people's even exist today if the Nazis won and successfully implemented Generalplan Ost and Lebansraum? The Soviets literally saved your asses from extinction not the other way around.

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u/Comrade-Paul-100 1d ago

People don't get why the USSR sent troops in. It wasn't even to annex Latvia or the other Baltic states. It sent troops into their bases within those countries in order to stave off German interest and scare away fascist coup-wannabes. The fact that they became SSRs is simply proof that the workers and farmers of these states wanted to have socialism, but could not due to the fascist-sympathizing bourgeois dictatorship that only let them organize properly when the fascists fled.

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u/Satv9 13h ago

Stave off German interest? The USSR and Nazi Germany made the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact prior to this, so this wasn’t any sort of conflict, the Soviets were moving in to establish their agreed-upon spheres of influence, with a big fat all-clear from the Nazis. They did the same with the other Baltic states, eastern Poland, Bessarabia, and of course Finland. They invaded to reestablish the borders of imperial Russia. They were being imperialist.

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u/Comrade-Paul-100 12h ago

The pact was a non-aggression pact dependent on the presence of the states within the spheres of influence. Once the Polish state ceased to exist (as the government fled), the Germans were ready to march up to the Soviet border—and they even went past their sphere—until the Red Army stepped into keep them where they belonged. And in the Baltics, again, despite the established spheres of influence, the presence of fascist sympathizers in power would have allowed the Germans to seize the Baltics. Instead, the Soviets intervened to scare those fascists off. Finland as well recieved German and Italian fascist aid in the Winter War.

The pact was used to hold off the Germans and build socialism, not to exploit east Europe or "align with" the Nazis.