World gone mad: Music conductor fired for making racist joke even though "victim" says no.

[Leadified]

VGPolyglot said:

Leadified said:

This is realpolitik, Ukraine is a valuable territory and signing a NAP with your biggest enemy while that same enemy is killing your other enemies is not a half bad idea. Mao avoided fighting the Japanese to rebuild his manpower and resources while letting the KMT exhaust itself.

While they may be killing other enemies, Nazi Germany also crushed many socialist movements. Of course though, we can't read minds, so we can only interpret their motivations with our own biases.

Socialist movements may not be inherently friendly to the Soviet regime. Moscow was happy as long as it could exert its influence, which it did without much trouble.