>USSR was never “on the same side” as Hitler. Really? When they were parading captured Poland or conspiring to divide Europe - they were on different sides? >

>USSR was never “on the same side” as Hitler. Really? When they were parading captured Poland or conspiring to divide Europe - they were on different sides? >Weakened USSR was denied power in Western Europe. Not weakened, far from it. And it was denied _capturing_ Western Europe. Basically they were saved from horrors of soviet 'communism'.