There was no "collaboration" between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. That is a lie. They signed a very temporary "non-aggression pact" AFTER the western powers had done likewise in order to forestall the initiation of conflict and move the battelines a few hundred miles to the West (away from Leningrad).

This lie has been repeated by right-wing social democrats and liberals for decades now and it is JUST NOT TRUE. It is a distortion at best and willful dissembling at worst.

Who armed the Spanish partisans fighting Franco?
A: The Soviet Union

Who formed the backbone of virtually every partisan resistance in Europe, as well as formed Popular Fronts Against Fascism in almost every country on earth?
A: Communists, under the political leadership of the Soviet Union

There were no industrial or trade agreements between the Soviet Union and Germany, which the USA had in effect. There was no collaboration on international affairs. There were no joint diplomatic offensives. There was no commonality of purpose. The only thing the Soviet Union and Germany had in common was that the US/UK alliance wished them both ill. This is the same garbage line today that says that those who oppose US imperialism somehow have to justify every creepy regime that runs afoul of US management... but wait, Bill argues that too.

You are trafficking in a lie.

Which you seem to do on the regular.

The myth of the collaboration between Nazis and communists hides the plain fact that they went to war in what was the single greatest clash in human history. But Bill will paint any picture he think justifies his own positions that are "agnostic" on US and Western imperialism against the supposed despotism of Stalinism and the backwardness of wogs everywhere.

(And if Bill wants a bibiliography of State Department Socialists who do, in fact, argue that Stalin was to blame for the German invasion... I'm sure it's already on your shelf.)