The western powers were far more anti-communist than they were anti-fascist. Not everyone knows that they directly intervened in the Russian civil war years before the rise of Nazism to try and topple the new Bolshevik government.
WW2 was just a temporary pause while both sides dealt with Germany.
It wasn’t even that. The US got involved when it was clear the Soviets were going to win. Yes yes Pearl Harbor triggered it, but it’s well documented that the Japanese attack was something that the US strategists and FDR himself discussed as something they needed to find a way to cause, and they did it by blockading Japanese oil imports and forcing them to act. The US was never an actual ally to the USSR, they just needed to keep up those appearances so they could invade Europe to stop the Soviets from liberating the entire continent.
The Allies of WW2 were more a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” kind of deal. That’s why the alliance started to fall apart the moment the common enemies were close to being defeated.
The western powers were far more anti-communist than they were anti-fascist. Not everyone knows that they directly intervened in the Russian civil war years before the rise of Nazism to try and topple the new Bolshevik government.
WW2 was just a temporary pause while both sides dealt with Germany.
It wasn’t even that. The US got involved when it was clear the Soviets were going to win. Yes yes Pearl Harbor triggered it, but it’s well documented that the Japanese attack was something that the US strategists and FDR himself discussed as something they needed to find a way to cause, and they did it by blockading Japanese oil imports and forcing them to act. The US was never an actual ally to the USSR, they just needed to keep up those appearances so they could invade Europe to stop the Soviets from liberating the entire continent.
The Allies of WW2 were more a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” kind of deal. That’s why the alliance started to fall apart the moment the common enemies were close to being defeated.