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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

British high command always viewed commies and sympathizers as the bigger threat, wrt both the Soviet Union and Germany. Hitler was doing their work for them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, you're thinking of America for the first part.

I mean, it would make sense, if The UK hadn't been at war with Germany and Italy for years before the Axis powers invaded the soviet Union. The day they invaded the soviet union, Britain started buying up all the wool in the world they could lay their hands on, to get at the nazis in every way possible. Despite being nearly starved into surrender and on rations nationally, the UK still sent huge amounts of aid, weapons and materials to the soviet Union, with the Arctic convoys.

Nazi Germany also gave the UK the chance to sit it out and keep their empire, as they wanted to go east and would rather use their resources on that, instead of fighting the royal navy.

The UK chose to fight the Nazis. They were drawn in by an alliance but who could have done anything about the UK changing their mind? No one could have done a thing.

So no, the reason was that Hitler was a cracked out junkie and he was preferable to one of Germany's many capable field marshals being in charge instead.