Prior to WW2, Stalin orchestrated a famine in Ukraine that killed 20 million.
Russia's role in WW2 is ambiguous at best, since Russian written history is about as reliable as their news networks.
If you want to know why Ukraine is fighting so hard against Russia now, give this a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
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Stalin also signed a "secret pact" with Hitler and invaded Poland from the East 16 days after Germany invaded from the West in 1939. I would disagree that Soviet history in WWII is so clearly black and white. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
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