Snake Featherston
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In a way, it is - there was a lot of hypocrisy in that war, like how the afro-americans where still screwed, the COLONIAL POWERS claiming to be good guys...
Not to mention the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Nazi-Soviet partition of Poland, the Soviets successfully eliminating the existence of the three Baltic states and failing to do so with Finland, giving the Nazis ports to end-run the Allied Blockade, ensuring the Nazis had land trade that end-ran the blockade......
Of course the Nazis intended Omnicide of everyone and everything that was not pleasing to them, where the Soviets were in practice Tsarism's more efficient successor, but including the Soviets in 1939-41, and the unrestrained horror of the Eastern Front from 1941-5 and emphasizing that it was here more by far than in the West where Nazism disintegrated pushes the war well out of the moral superiority in a White and Black sense, and into Grey and Black.
After all the USSR had no problem itself eradicating the independence of entire countries.......
Well, yeah, the Allies weren't angels, but compared to the Nazis...
On the other hand OTL tends to neglect that WWII was an Omnicidal Maniac fighting Tsar Nicholas II's more competent Magnificent Bastard dictatorial successor, in terms of the sheer scale of land combat. The war was won much more by the Red Army and the Soviet Union on land than it ever was by Ike and company. And the greatest moral advantage the USSR had was that it wasn't the Nazi state intent on wholesale eradication of civilizations and reducing survivors to illiterate slaves, but instead defending itself from such people who wantonly attacked it.
A proper history of WWII would emphasize the USSR's role in the full six years of war in Europe, and note that while the Nazis were indisputably worse, it was not by any means a case of the USSR being blushing innocents.
Make one of the Axis powers democratic, have the allies start the war, remove the Nazis from power in Germany and have them behave reasonably towards the Ukrainians and poles and you have a recipe for a rather more morally ambiguous war.
You mean like Finland?