It's also a felony to mention Stalin's purges, the Bolshevik Pogroms in Poland, the Holodomyr where Stalin murdered 5 million Ukrainians,
Read up on Nazinsky Island where Stalin sent 5,000 "Kulaks" (subsistence farmers) who resisted forced collectivism. Over 3,000 died in 6 weeks from disease, starvation, bullets and cannibalism.
Stalin made my people eat each other, and it is illegal to mention this in the free, glorious russian empire.
Why don't you try to read the russian version of the wikipedia article on the Ribbentrop Molotov agreement? It is not as short as the catchy phrase "USSR and Germany were allies before 1941", but I think it gives a fuller picture of the events.
And while we are speaking about nazi allies here is one of the many links about the ties US had with nazi germany:
The way I read it, the Soviet Union partnered with Nazi Germany to invade Poland.
This wasn’t the Soviet Union invading Poland to protect Poland against the Nazi invasion. The Soviet Union attacked Poland and fought the Polish army in order to split Polish territories with Nazi Germany.
Not sure how that compares to Ford/IBM selling equipment to the Nazi regime prior to hostilities.
Don't forget Munich Agreement [1] that had happened a year before the respective strategic move on the part of USSR. There's no moral stance to hold against another nation's attemt to get a favourable position (for themselves) if it happens in a wake of and in accordance to their geo-political opponents' moves. The rest of Europe had been acting the same way whilst being busy preparing for a newly emerging conflict.
well... recently there been serious cleanup of history. this part is neglected and if somebody tries to say opposite they will be charged with glorification of nazism or with "altering historical truth about russia's win in wwII" (or something like this)