Yet who supported them in the invasion of Poland???
Who gave them a lot of resources and fuel without which the Offensive against France would have had much smaller chance of sucess??
Who gave them metereological data during the Battle of Britain??
Who is worse?
The one who starts a war or the one who supports the one starting a war??
The Nazis wanted a war in four years regardless. Any self-serving claims that German nationalities' grievances, real or imagined, had anything to do with it were just that: self-serving claims. There was not a scrap of truth in or about any of them. The Hossbach Memorandum made it clear: Nazi Germany was to re-arm for a war in four years. This was the sole, only, and true goal. How it happened was contingent and dependent on circumstances, the goal was not.
Yes the USSR invading Poland and Finnland and the Baltic and Bessarabia was done reluctantly only because of fear of Germany
Reluctantly, no. The Baltic States and Poland, yes actually from a fear of Germany. Finland was a purely revanchist attempt to reverse one of the few real-true White successes of the Russian Civil War.
Yes the Nazi concept of killing people because of their race/ethnicity is different from the communist concept of killing people because of their social class.
Allthough why were the 172 000 Koreans deported in 1937, or all Poles and Germans removed from the Soviet armament industry during the Great Terror? Because the Commies sometimes did kill/deport people just because of their ethnicity.
And had the USSR not supplied and helped Germany from 1939-1941 Germany wouldnt have probably been able to launch Barbarossa - and even if than with much smaller sucess.
So the USSR had it coming - and is at least partially responsible for the invasion - since they made it possible.
I suppose that appeasement means this applies equally to the UK and France, y/n?
The fact is that de facto all Nazi crimes happened during war
While most Communist crimes happened during peace time
One could argue that the Nazi crimes happened because of war - while communism killed around the clock during war and peace time.
Its also true that from 1933-1939 the Nazis had killed and imprisoned lets say 100 000 people. While the USSR was at around 20 Million killed and imprisioned and deported people by 1939 - allthough they had a headstart of allmost 10 years.
Given the whole Nazi goal was a war to eradicate tens of millions of people all along, this distinction is one that is trite and has nothing whatsoever to do with the realities of the Nazi regime.