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Originally Posted by chubeyr1
Why did Japan ever choose the Germans as an ally? Why did Russia?
History is filled with what ifs.
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Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany both hated communism which led to an anti-communism pact. Germany and the USSR momentarily worked together because Germany need critical resources from the USSR (especially petrol, key food resources and metals for alloys) and the USSR needed technology transfers from Germany and Stalin was also trying to buy time since he belatedly realized he had badly weakened the USSR's fighting power with the purges of the Red Army.
There was actually some discussion of the USSR joining the Axis powers, which then would have made them an incredibly formidable force for just the Western Allies to fight. But that was too much against Nazi ideology to accept.