In 1941, the Communist Soviet Union invited Germany’s Nazis to come to Moscow for its May Day parade. Pictured in the photo above is an invited delegation of Nazis in Moscow’s Red Square on May Day.
Communism and Nazism are both bad. Socialism and fascism are bad. Nazism is short for “National Socialism.” The full name of Adolf Hitler’s political party was the National Socialist German Workers Party.
In 1939, the Soviets and the Nazis had collaborated. They carved up parts of eastern Europe between them, with Russia seizing the Baltic countries, and Germany and Russia splitting Poland between them. As Wikipedia explains:
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact…was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe. The pact was signed in Moscow on 24 August 1939 by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop….
A week after signing the pact, on 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. On 17 September [Russian communist dictator Joseph] Stalin ordered the Soviet invasion of Poland. After a short war ending in military defeat for Poland, Germany and the Soviet Union drew up a new border between them on formerly Polish territory in the supplementary protocol of the German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty.
In March 1940, the Soviet Union annexed parts of Karelia, Salla and Kuusamo following the Winter War against Finland. The Soviet annexation of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and parts of Romania (Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region) followed. Stalin’s invasion of Bukovina in 1940 violated the pact, since it went beyond the Soviet sphere of influence that had been agreed with the Axis.[15]
The territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union following the 1939 Soviet invasion east of the Curzon line remained in the Soviet Union after the war and are now in Ukraine and Belarus.
