In the 1930s an important line of Soviet propaganda was that «fascism means war» (fashizm – eto voina). After Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, the USSR rang the alarm bells and sought to organise an anti-Nazi alliance with the major western powers, France, Britain, and the United States. Soviet diplomats called it «collective security» but really it was a strategy to contain Nazi Germany, or defeat it in war if containment failed...
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