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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I pretty much consider the USSR as their own side in WW2. The had a pact with the Nazis to partition Poland, and the USSR also attacked Romania and Finland in order to expand. They also had a pact with Japan just before the war to partition Manchuria and Korea.
For that matter, China was also up to no good before WW2. Both China and the USSR were allies of convenience to defeat the Axis, but neither were friendly nations, that is for sure.
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Even the "good guys" were up to no good. The UK and France were dividing the former Ottoman Empire and Africa to secure their own natural resource interests. You basically had a situation where a lot of older empires were falling apart, and the new powers were trying to expand their influence to fill those voids. WW2 was a bit of a wake up call, which is what it took for many of the Western powers to provide some degree of sovereignty to their former colonial assets.