Stalin intentionally delivered up his own people and the vast territory of his country to Hitler. He used the leaders of the world community at that time in a subtle and far-sighted blackmail, in which he bargained in advance for conditions favorable to himself in the reorganization of the world after the war. Stalin alone knew that he had a trump card up his sleeve in the form of manpower reserves and a well-functioning military industry, which had been transported into the depths of the country well in advance. Stalin clearly understood that unless he managed to reverse world’s opinion about the USSR — the country that was barred from the League of Naions — he would never sit at the same table with the leaders of the democratic countries. And indeed, it was only after victory at such a price that the USSR became one of the great powers of the UN Security Council with the right of veto, and its successor, the Russian Federation is actively using this right up to modern days.
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