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Communism brought Russia from a feudal industrial backwater to putting the first people in space in the span like 20-30 years, and they crushed the Nazi war machine in the process.
The pact that was formed after France and England failed to enter into an anti-Nazi pact with the USSR?
A pact that was a necessity when all the Allies rebuffed the USSR, but also a pact that documents show the USSR never even intended to honour from day one.
It's pretty clear the Soviets expected Germany to violate the pact, they wouldn't have bothered building a massive fucking defensive line between them and Germany if they hadn't.