It's like when you explain to people why they aren't getting paid enough and they start agreeing with you, and then if you mention the word 'communism' they start burning you into a stake
@@gtcross4512 I understand like this. The elites of the west feeds it's newborn children (common citizens) with money and lots of propaganda spreading hatred with false information.they also supply their vessels with money and weapon to wage war with various county and nobody is safe. West killed Chinese in the civil war, Japanese in atomic bo"bing, created Taliban, destroyed Yemen Vietnam Lebanon and now Palestine. That's it . Summerization of west activity in one video.
This is NOT "Anti-Western Propaganda". It's a message against capitalists, weapon manufacturers and nazism/fascism. The Soviets were based producing this clip.
No, it’s propaganda. The message is that Capitalism produces a war machine and fascism, when in reality both Capitalist and Communist countries were capable of warmongering and producing giant military machines. The idea that Capitalism is the only source of war is pure Soviet nonsense.
Russia is the King of projection and whatboutism to the point where it practically invented those concepts in propaganda and politics. Nothing has changed, they just sought a new audience with their same old propaganda.
@@Dookieman1975 the people, not the government, you cant call a country "victim", because the victims are always the people, the government is the one that makes decisions, and then suffers then concequences
@@Dookieman1975 the citizens are the victims, many citizens want to leave or surrender, Ukrainian leaders are forcing them to fight or die, and Russia tells them to surrender or die.
More like ironic given Russia's actions in East Germany, Korea, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Africa, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraine while it was pushing this propaganda.
It's even funnier when you consider the USSR was the main exporter of oil and gas to Germany right to the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. And even afterwards, the majority of equipment most third world dictatorships and tyrants use Soviet made weaponry.
@@TheFi0r3 funny how you never learn about the USSR's foreign misadventures/atrocities during the Cold War in school, where its just "Muh Vietnam" and "Muh Operation Condor"
WEF/globalism/capitalism is what is in the heart of the west today, military, morally, culturally, so it's not wrong. It's indeed anti-western to root against Israel for instance. The west prove again and again that it can only generates more of the same colonialist/capitalist; in short - anti-human pattern, masked as "free choice" and "freedom". Not saying the USSR was not a hypocriticy, but at least it had the guts to end it's own existence when it didn't live up to it's own social standards and promises. Meaning, that in the end - they were more true to the democratic idea than the western hypocrites.
@@unaincreibleroca3427 Its interesting that you read his comment it as understood it as him equating anti-fascism with being anti-westeren. Where I read it as him pointing out other people equate anti-fascism with being anti-westeren.
@@louwritznel3816 ah, perhaps, I'm not sure I just saw that a lot of the comments were heavily left leaning and because I was in a rush I didn't think much of it
From what i know it isnt really that bad as western propaganda says, you werent starving (during tbe 1970s), nor was it the utopia soviet propaganda says it was.
@@Mautiks youtube mary and jesus in the quran and mohmmad in the bible and the Torah and the scientific miracles of the quran and mohmmad in hindu scripture
@@stagirit384fr agent orange protected south vietnam america on its way to save south vietnam by entering their country for 20 years, bombing everything and then just leaving forcing them to surrender
It was the different women running with their babies that I realized what the message was supposed to be. Both sides fight, at the same time actually helping each other to create a war machine, a monster that will lay waste to the rest of the world. Meanwhile, there are many calls for peace, but while those birds are numerous, they aren’t anywhere near the strength and size of the monstrous bird. They at best create a nuisance.
This is just a part of the cartoon ..... The message is captalism creats monsters and the world suffers ... only way out is communism ... ... Witch is very hypocritical considering it was the ussr that aided ns germany for the most time ....
If this had been made in the United States back then, there's no way it would have included a black or Asian mother and baby. "Propaganda"? I think the US propaganda is far worse
@@ureyesrbleeding1 so what??? You can say "I like [X] film" and they could respond "That's literally what it was meant for". What is wrong with you people.
So just because the title has "anti-Western" and "Soviet" all of a suddenly people's critical thinking goes out the window and they can't see that it's a very factual and poignant criticism of Western powers and capitalism that should be taken seriously.
@@5678efgh3 America is the most important, superior and prosperous continent. It is the new center, therefore the new benchmark. Henceforth the "West" is Asia and the "East" is Europe. 😤👊💪
Суть в том, что фашистские организации активно развивались благодаря буржуазии, о том и речь. Фильм против фашистских идей. Поскриптум: паны и панночки, люди и собаки, либералы и социалисты, националисты и буржуазы, не надо устраивать политсрачей пожалуйста. Все люди когда-то ошибаются, даже лидеры стран, НО это не повод для того, чтобы писать гадости и глупости в сторону других людей. Будьте добрее ;)
Several weeks into this scenario: This just in, an incredibly large eagle with explosive feathers has consumed the USS Gerald R Ford. Scientists speculate that it might be the same species of bird as the one that raided the nuclear storage plant in Albuquerque and ate every last nuclear warhead last week. This bird knows no borders, and is in constant hunger. It is unclear why it only feeds on military supplies, but we advise all personal in any military service to be weary of these behemoths
This is an incredibly fascinating cartoon, I’ve been scouring for more info on it with every search term under the sun to no avail. If anyone has a full version or a name for this, please let me know, I’m dying for more info
@@jorgedeanoperez2997 there were a lot of masterpieces of human creativity and spirit made. After watching this i can only think about this one, it's anti war too. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4oxP3TyuQx0.html
It was multiple countries that made up the former Soviet Union and not all of those countries spoke the same language, it's pretty ingenious to have such a message able to go out to each individual Soviet state and no matter the language you'd understand what was being conveyed to you.
No, all Soviet countries spoke Russian. Especially when this cartoon came out it would have been decades upon decades since the standardization of the Russian languages. In fact still most post Soviet countries have a near 40-50% Russian speaking population
Уровень Советской пропаганды был очень высоким. Там работали лучшие художники, поэты, режиссеры и другие. Но я сомневаюсь, что этот мультфильм снят в СССР
The fact it potrays a few different cultures and people as the innocent woman and child seems quite good in a sense that it can come off as everyone feels the addects of war and we should worry. Just a quick bit i noticed. I cant add more.
those were eastern cultures behind the iron wall. the big black bird represented the rebuild of germany by the US and Britain after the war... russia saw itself as the super power defending the east from that rebuild... they were selling fear... after all they tried to treaty once with Hitler's Germany and due to it they suffered millions of lost lives... after all the decendents of the people who put hitler in power were shown to be vengeful in the past ww1 for reference... So russia to promote their ideology to the masses of the east they had to visually show how the US and Britain were creating a new larger Threat that they might not be able to hold back... in the west we didnt understand this because we never wanted to invade russia... and we were making germany back then an anti war country much the same way Japan became... But in order for russia to motivate its people and justify the sacrifice of giving their lives and hard work to the state to make it strong enough to defend itself from an attack that was to never arrive... but it was all a lie to their people... since russia only wanted to take as much of europe as they could for world power.. and that is where Putin is today in his head... desperately trying to rebuild a weakened Russia to the Strength it had become after ww2... but those satelite states do not want to live under the oppression of Russias ideology anymore because having done so following the war only brought them hardship... plus since 1991 alot of those satelite states got to experience western capitalism and the wealth it brought to them... it hasnt been as great as it could... but it has been better than it was under russian rule. and that is why Ukraine fights so hard now... 30 yrs of freedom has strengthened them and given them reason to fight for true democracy and freedom... which russia despises because it takes money and power away from them and they fear those smaller countries working together because they were treated so poorly during the cold war and fear it will eventually cost them their country...
The stereotypical 'women' and the addition of 'and children' to keep women in a protected strata and pretense of 'she' does no wrong - just pushing on simps instincts.
@@conserva-chan2735 stereotype, and propaganda. Man, learn to identify information, lol. I think you're 2 years old. This is anti-fascist ksta propaganda.
Im interested in how old this is, because the arguments used in it is still used today, so it kinda brings into perspective that the debate doesn't really change that much
@@Leviathan399 theres actually truth in this cartoon, i don't see a defense of communism here, but a critiique of powerful elites and military complex feeding wars. The black bird could be used as an analogy to conflict.
@@timd6303there is a mote of truth to western businesses assisting in the buildup of nazi Germanys forces, many nations officials turned blind eyes to the unusually high steel demands from german "tractor factories" because exports helped ease the pains of the great depression, but it's a huge stretch to say thats a bigger factor than literally signing a pact with them.
As so many people seem to be misunderstanding what the meaning of this animation is supposed to be here a clarification: The bird is supposed to represent the german eagle, which you can recognize by its pointy feathers as well as the cracks on the egg at the beginning which form a Swastika. The fat man and the man in uniform represent the western capitalists and generals, who invested a lot of money into the german economy after WWII through the marshall plan and stationed missiles and other military equipment there, after inviting them into NATO. This animation basically insinuates that the westerners were helping Germany regain power, thus potentially causing them to get out of control and create a new global conflict, which would be more destructive than ever before. I personally don't think the people who made this wanted to emphasize the importance of world peace. They were rather accusing the west of financing fascists to support them against the USSR. Thus making the Sowjet political system seem supperior and sane when compared to the Western one.
Lmao, nato before Ww2? Man read a book, again, none of your kids know the meaning of this video, you are too stupid and apply your 2000s mentality into this, talking about peace and globalism
Edited: I now know why people warn about the things written in their comment sections, but I genuinely didn't before. If you want to dive deeper, prepare yourself for some nasty little comments under an otherwise so beautiful animation video.
the original cartoon is called We can do it (Это в наших силах), 1970 and it lasts around 10 minutes. The actual meaning of it is actually opposite - people from all around the world, including Europe, Asia, USSR etc fought together against fascism. So don’t believe everything you see on the Internet 😊
@@ecydysis Here’s some news for ya: Napalm and palm trees were also present in Kenya in the 1950 as the British were bombing the independence movement in civilian villages.
@@x2y3a1j5 The film was presumably made in the 70s while The Vietnam War was still going so it was likely alluding to that conflict than anything else. Nonetheless the British are still regarded as ‘Western’ so my point still stands.
@@ecydysis Yes, you’re right; however I’m intent on spreading awareness about that scarcely known fact about the Brits being the 1st to use napalm against civilians. Both our points stand and I think we understand each other, despite some lack of clarity or manners on my part. Have a good day!
Let's hope the bird is not NATO as well. After all, NATO is only defensive alliance, right guys? NATO members was never involved in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq and so on. We are 1000% the good guys.
One of their best albums “another thing coming” is one of my favs and “Electric eye” I always imagined that bird was supposed to be the “electric eye” surveillance state/war machine bird.
@Евгений СССР especially their Soviet era weapons and ration packs. Not to mention the nonexistence helmets and gear they have to source from home. The great bear we were all afraid of during the cold war has been shown to be nothing but a tattered old teddy bear. Poor Russian people. You've gone from a super power to a super joke. And now P*tin has turned you into a third world country now.
The bad guys won WW2. The same cartoon is as valid as it was back in the day. The politicians still get rich with bribes from the war conglomerates. And the constant wars they start make sure there will always be clients. Meanwhile, civilians all over the world are condemned to certain death. Today's black bird is Al Qaeda.
And don't you wonder why you don't see propaganda, when you are actually looking at it? Do you even know what was "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact"? Is absurd how some people are deep inside their ignorance and see the world from a tinny hole in their cave.
What a good inclusivity example for the time, although a white woman and her baby are the protagonists that sequence in which they replace her with versions of other races/ethnicities puts all those others in the same place and on the same level. And that done only with an animation sequence of a few seconds, and already with that they are transmitting the idea that "all races and cultures are in the same place, they are the same" without having to oversaturate.
@Chunkopops “Few countries as hatful as ours” I can name five off the top of my head and can name more if you give me a minute to think. C’mon, the US isn’t that bad, to say we are the most hateful or worst country is such an ignorant thing to say. The fact you say that leads me to think your from a country with those privileges provided in the US or similar, because only in those places can you have the time to complain and hate on a place that thousands of people would be willing to give away their life savings to live in, because it’s infinitely better then what they currently live with. Count your blessings and don’t take them for granted.
@Chunkopops no offense but you seem incredibly ignorant of the crimes that the soviet union comitted against their own population. I implore you to read up on what the soviets were doing; all in the name of communism but they were basically acting as fascists too.The usa isn't even comparable. For example because of soviet policies millions of kazakhs and ukrainians died in what can almost be counted as a genocide. Not to mention they deported alot of minorities to backwater parts of the country where they were forced to stay. Ethnic minorities in the soviet union had it just as bad if not worse which is why all the republics wanted to split from the soviet union in 1991.
@@hazzmati no offense but you seem extremely ignorant of what this guy was saying. He isn’t offering an excuse for war crimes or a reductive “the USSR was actually good” statement, just the fact that the west’s reductive, regressive view of Eastern Europe are not only untrue, but ironic remnants from Cold War propaganda still being pedaled in the US today
@Chunkopops American racism WAS on another level, racism is still prevalent today, but the media blows it, like most things, out of proportion distorting the people's views. People prey upon America's racist past for "helpful causes" when in reality all they are doing are helping themselves become rich by profiting off of racism. All they do is spread hate, America is not as racist as so many people say it is, but because the news cant bother to show anything but negativity and make everything about race, America is given a bad rap. White people are affected by police brutality as well as black people, but nobody talks about it. It's not about race, it's about abusing power
@@Shiny101 Most of the still-existing German companies don't really want to talk about what they did back then, as capitalism actually fed the Nazis and made them bigger. Fascism was a great way for corruption to make yourself even more money. Propaganda doesn't always state lies, what's being shown here isn't even that inaccurate. Capitalism has enough flaws, stop white knighting it wherever you can, or you will be the one falling for decades-old propaganda..
In 1933 Germany was the poorest country in Europe and could not even feed its own population and you want to say that by 1939 they were already able to finance the largest war in history and the most expensive military projects that could be? Ahaha. Hitler spared the British troops in Dunkirk and let them leave, then asked the West for peace, but Churchill did not agree to peace without conditions, the conditions of peace were the invasion of Russia. Hitler failed to invade Russia and was written off. Anglosaxons did not release many high-ranking Nazis from prison until they died, because they were afraid that the world would find out the truth.
Actually this is pretty accurate Also the fact that the Soviet drew humans from multiple backgrounds in a very respectful way compared to the west which drew them in stereotype style in the same era , it took the west more years to fix thier drawing style lol Edit : Lol I've never thought this dumb comment will cause all the chaos in the replies section chill out guys also thanks for everyone who gave likes
I think that Soviet Union was as racist as west in some causes even worse. I mean destroying cultures and languages and of nations that was ruled by literal Russian Empire (but with different label) and makes everything in Russian language forcing this nations to learn it. Torturing them with made up Hunger-Genocide causing deaths of millions.
Really makes you question if the American British or other at the time big countries supported the natzis and then tried to turn against it as America supported Taliban in war against Russia and then turned against it. Supported ISIS and then turned against it
@@luigimrlgaming9484 armenian, lev atamanov. he has lots of masterpieces. hayao miyazaki told in an interview that atamanov's film "snow queen" has been a major influence and his favourite film. (i was personally very scared of that film as a child)
@@redaug4212 Yes, the US intervened in the Russian civil war alongside the better part of the globe, trying to choke the revolution in its cradle, but they failed spectacularly. Not many know of this intervention.
@@ComradeHellas Not only that, but while the US military was deploying troops to the Soviet Union, western corporations like Ford Motor Company, Hercules Gear, and IBM, with the help of federal subsidization, were signing trade deals with Soviet leaders. The best enemy money can buy, as the saying goes.
@@ComradeHellas Not many know? The white army had huge support from the west, and it is well documented. Most high schools in western europe teach that to their students. Where do you get that information ("not many know of this intervention") from ?!
сегодня 4 ракеты атакамс убили 116 русских, почему русские сами под ракеты ложатся? Да именно что сами, так как это не территория РФ. Что же они там делали? Боролись с империализмом? Когда в 14 году Украина сдала Крым без боя, это такие там империалисты, которые даже за свои земли не хотят сражаться, не говоря о колониях которых даже нет.
@@enemyoftheworkingclass7557 Well yes, because at the end of the day they did remain neutral to fascism. It was more beneficial for them to turn a blind eye and let it continue happening. Fascism was targeting those who were critical of the institutional power they held. But I'm assuming that you were already aware of that because of your username.
The bird represents nazism and fascism, and the point of the film is that the western warmongers and capitalists “fed” nazism until it got big enough to challenge them and then it got out of hand. The moral of the story is that fascism (and by extension, war and destruction) doesn’t come out of thin air, it is fostered and cultivated by the rich and powerful and the people’s willingness to accept the system that allows fascism to grow.
The bird represents Germany. Germany's symbol is a black eagle and has been since the days of the Holy Roman Empire. So what they're saying is that from naziism a new Germany is born and the west feeds/arms that new Germany until it once again becomes a problem for Europe.
what are you talking about? the usa/capitalism never supported the nazis? the nazis were underdogs who seized control because the people hated communist influence in germany.
It is propaganda to act like the Nazis were funded by the evil West while the Soviets had nothing to do with supporting them. In 1922 the Soviets signed the Treaty of Rapallo with the Nazis, part of which allowed the Nazis to set up factories on Soviet territory to build up their mechanised forced, like tanks and artillery, beyond the limits that had been put on them during the Treaty of Versaille. In other words, the British and French were preventing the Germans from building up their army, but the Soviets gave them a back door to go around these restrictions. Unlike the Soviets, the US and the UK had no such deals which directly helped the Germans build up their military, although there were some loans made to them by financial institutions, these were relatively small in the grand scheme of things. The Dawes Plan involved giving loans to the Germans, but it was signed before the Nazis took power. Most financial aid quickly ended once Hitler rose to power. However, some Some private companies from the UK and US, like IBM, did get up to some unforgiveable stuff which helped the Nazis do terrible things, don't get me wrong. That's why it's nuanced. But on a governmental level, the Soviet government was much more direct in helpnig the Nazis build their war machine. Later, they signed a whole deal with Germany to divide and conquer Europe together, starting by taking different sides of Poland at the same time, triggering World War 2. Yes, you can say quite a bit about some bad decisions made by the capitalist countries, but the Soviets acting like they were not massively complicit is laughable.
Which is exactly the opposite of what happened. The Soviet Union was allied with Nazi Germany, while the evil, evil capitalists were fighting the Nazis. The Soviet Union were on the side of the Nazis up until the Nazis turned on them. Then the evil, evil capitalists saved their butts. WW2 is a story of capitalists destrying fascism and communists getting lucky and getting to exploit and tyrannize people for a couple of decades more.
When an old soviet propaganda cartoon depicts a more truthful and accurate representation of recent global history and politics than contemporary western news media and commentary
It is propaganda to act like the Nazis were funded by the evil West while the Soviets had nothing to do with supporting them. In 1922 the Soviets signed the Treaty of Rapallo with the Nazis, part of which allowed the Nazis to set up factories on Soviet territory to build up their mechanised forced, like tanks and artillery, beyond the limits that had been put on them during the Treaty of Versaille. In other words, the British and French were preventing the Germans from building up their army, but the Soviets gave them a back door to go around these restrictions. Unlike the Soviets, the US and the UK had no such deals which directly helped the Germans build up their military, although there were some loans made to them by financial institutions, these were relatively small in the grand scheme of things. The Dawes Plan involved giving loans to the Germans, but it was signed before the Nazis took power. Most financial aid quickly ended once Hitler rose to power. However, some Some private companies from the UK and US, like IBM, did get up to some unforgiveable stuff which helped the Nazis do terrible things, don't get me wrong. That's why it's nuanced. But on a governmental level, the Soviet government was much more direct in helpnig the Nazis build their war machine. Later, they signed a whole deal with Germany to divide and conquer Europe together, starting by taking different sides of Poland at the same time, triggering World War 2. Yes, you can say quite a bit about some bad decisions made by the capitalist countries, but the Soviets acting like they were not massively complicit is laughable.
we should push all tax money into creating such bird with genetic engineering, And then feed it with tanks, guns, bombs and taxes to make it big and strong
@@dibershai6009 Chickens (by biology) is an Dinosaur, except very small. They are birbs, who focuses more on quantity vs quality. I have no idea how they think it's alright but ehh whatever
@@ammonite400 oh yeah they were my man but my expect you to know anything because you know internet and all that really hard to like find stuff out notoriously on the internet. Read a history book
@@TheKitMurkit Boring virtue signaling.I don't like any such thing,but it's a fact that US military industrial complex has become even more powerful than senate of USA and is main sponsor of terrorism around the entire globe.UCK, Mujahideen,Talibans,Al Quaida, IS,Azov,Aydar,even Khmer Rouge,,all on it's payroll at certain times in history.
@@JohnJ469 Fair point.But meme is more about USA financing entire plethora of terrorist groups only to later bomb them in some fake sort of solution,also placing their military bases around the globe.
@@JohnJ469 because the AK is dirtcheap and state produced, so there wasnt really a incentive to profit involved. I think its mostly when the AKs got outside the graps of the soviets or after the fall of the soviets that it spread in the market. Not because i like or defend communism in anyway.
This is about how capitalists funded the nazis in the 40's and it was made in 1970, so I wouldnt say they predicted anything, even if capitalists still fund nazis nowadays lol
@@greyngreyer5 lmaoooo you're a dumbass, ofc WW1 wasn't a black and white affair, the allies are FAR from being saints, same for the average soldier everywhere else, google soldiers in Vietnam.
The Soviet and Allies' plan to destroy Germany worked. Germany is a puppet-state of America (like the rest of NATO), there is no cultural pride, and the Germans will become a minority in their own country.
Honestly at this point and how many people in the comments are saying its from another different side of the argument, imma just accept Its anti war, no matter who really made it.
What do you think communists were. They always were the bastion of anti war sentiment. Look at the spartacist uprising in 1917 germany. They were betrayed by the social democrat SPD who ended up supporting the war.
Мораль в том, что всегда найдутся люди, которые своими деньгами и оружием для достижения своих алчных целей (желанием завладеть чужими богатством, ресурсами) будут взращивать амбициозных юнцов и управлять ими. Задача всех людей не допускать расцвета нацистских идей в обществе. Все люди равны в своём праве на счастливую жизнь.
The thing is, both sides, West and Soviet sphere, each made some valid critiques in their propaganda about their opponent. Just because a source is obviously biased doesn'r mean that they don't sometimes tell the truth. Of course, propaganda is both simplified and exaggerated for effect.
The USSR's bogeyman was Nazism. The USA's bogeyman was the USSR. It was easy to criticise the Nazis. They had lost the war, and everyone knew what they had done. The USA's criticism of the USSR was based in projection. Expensive, pointless projects were funded with the sole justification of "the Russians might already have done it." Among the Operation Stargate (attempting to use clairvoyance for espionage) and Project MK Ultra (using torture to create unwitting sleeper agents). It had nothing to do with the actual shortcomings of the USSR, which were actually talked about by actual Communists and Anarchists (Trotsky, Orwell, Goldman, and others) until the House Committee on Un-American Activities made being a Communist or Communist sympathiser illegal in the USA.
@@ottodidakt3069 Ironically, the USSR was accused of and criticised by the USA for crimes the USSR did not even commit, instead of the ones it did. It turns out that the crimes the USA accused the USSR of were ones the USA were guilty of themselves.
@@25thHourDay Oh so it was just fearmongering about West Germany. That makes more sense than the interpretation that the Capitalist powers were behind the rise of Nazi Germany, which is frankly just insultingly wrong.
1941-1945: "This man is your FRIEND, he fights for FREEDOM", "Red Army together with the armies of our Allies will break the spine of the Fascist beast", "On our side RUSSIA, with us all the way!" 1945-now:
Soviet Scientist Yuri Bezmenov said that all ideologies are simply a mechanism for controlling the masses. The real world operates on power structures, nothing more.
Союзники во время войны называли социализм "альтернативной/левой/органической демократией" в своей пропаганде.В рамках курса на дружбу с СССР и предотвращения Оси"Белин-Москва" также не было никаких претензий из-за Польши,Прибалтики или Финляндии.Они даже продвигали культ личности Сталина в своих СМИ.Лол😆
No, it isn't. It is propaganda to act like the Nazis were funded by the evil West while the Soviets had nothing to do with supporting them. In 1922 the Soviets signed the Treaty of Rapallo with the Nazis, part of which allowed the Nazis to set up factories on Soviet territory to build up their mechanised forced, like tanks and artillery, beyond the limits that had been put on them during the Treaty of Versaille. In other words, the British and French were preventing the Germans from building up their army, but the Soviets gave them a back door to go around these restrictions. Unlike the Soviets, the US and the UK had no such deals which directly helped the Germans build up their military, although there were some loans made to them by financial institutions, these were relatively small in the grand scheme of things. The Dawes Plan involved giving loans to the Germans, but it was signed before the Nazis took power. Most financial aid quickly ended once Hitler rose to power. However, some Some private companies from the UK and US, like IBM, did get up to some unforgiveable stuff which helped the Nazis do terrible things, don't get me wrong. That's why it's nuanced. But on a governmental level, the Soviet government was much more direct in helpnig the Nazis build their war machine. Later, they signed a whole deal with Germany to divide and conquer Europe together, starting by taking different sides of Poland at the same time, triggering World War 2. Yes, you can say quite a bit about some bad decisions made by the capitalist countries, but the Soviets acting like they were not massively complicit is laughable.