Sovyetler Birliği’nin savaş öncesi döneme bakışı (1933-1939): nazilerin Avrupa’yı işgalinin sorumlusu kim?

Abstract

In the present study, the Soviet Union’s view of the period prior to the outbreak of the World War II and how it assessed the process leading to war are examined. Aggressive and expansionist foreign policy of the Nazi Party which came into power under the leadership of Hitler in Germany is of great importance in understanding this period. In this context, the main problematic of the study is that the Soviet Union took the gradually growing Nazi threat extremely seriously, while western capitalist countries especially two leading actors of the League of Nations, England and France were looking moderately upon Nazi Germany, during the said period. According to the Soviet Union, the possibility/expectation of the Nazi-Soviet War lay at the root of this. Also the Nazi-Soviet Pact was not the cause of the Nazi occupation of Europe, but the consequence of the implemented foreign policies of England and France.