If Hitler hadn't attacked the USSR, would the USSR have maintained its secret pact with the Nazis?

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24. Michael Parenti said USSR was forced into the non-aggression pact with Germany...

Alone among the nations that would later be allies, the USSR had asked the Western powers for help in opposing the rapidly re-arming Germany in the 1930s. It appears now that the pact was Soviet Russia's way of ensuring peace with Hitler.

THE COLD WAR IS AN OLD WAR

by Michael Parenti
from Contrary Notions (2007)

EXCERPT...

Repeated overtures by Moscow to conclude collective-security pacts with the Western democracies in order to contain Axis aggression were rebuffed, including Soviet attempts to render armed assistance to Czechoslovakia. Frustrated in its attempts to form an anti-Nazi alliance, and believing (correctly) that it was being set up as a target for Nazi aggression, the USSR signed an eleventh-hour nonaggression treaty with Hitler in 1939 to divert any immediate attack by German forces.

To this day, the Hitler-Stalin pact is paraded as proof of the USSR's diabolic affinity for Nazism and its willingness to cooper­ate with Hitler in the dismemberment of Poland. Conservative news columnist George Will was only one of many when he mis­takenly described the Soviet Union as a regime that was "once allied with Hitler."44 The Soviets were never allied with Hitler. The pact was a treaty, not an alliance. It no more denoted an alliance with Nazism than would a nonaggression treaty between the United States and the Soviets have denoted an alliance between the two. On this point, British historian A. J. P. Taylor is worth quoting:

It was no doubt disgraceful that Soviet Russia should make any agreement with the leading Fascist state; but this reproach came ill from the statesmen who went to Munich .... (The Hitler-Stalin) pact contained none of the fulsome expressions of friendship which Chamberlain had put into the Anglo-German declaration on the day after the Munich conference. Indeed Stalin rejected any such expressions: "the Soviet Government could not sud­denly present to the public German-Soviet assurances of friendship after (we) had been covered with buckets of filth by the Nazi Government for six years.

The pact was neither an alliance nor an agreement for the partition of Poland. Munich had been a true alliance for partition: the British and French dictated partition to the Czechs. The Soviet government undertook no such action against the Poles. They merely promised to remain neutral, which is what the Poles had always asked them to do and which Western policy implied also. More than this, the agreement was in the last resort anti-German: it limited the German advance eastwards in case of war. . . . (With the pact, the Soviets hoped to ward) off what they had most dreaded—a united capitalist attack on Soviet Russia. ... It is difficult to see what other course Soviet Russia could have followed.45

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http://www.skeptic.ca/Parenti_Cold_War.htm

Gee. What class of individual'd want to make money off of war?