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[–] plyth@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

socialism

They didn't amass riches for an elite and didn't build their country on racial superiority. That's closer than most to socialism.

without the land grabs in Eastern Europe?

The Curzon Line was a proposed demarcation line between the Second Polish Republic and the Soviet Union, two new states emerging after World War I.

The line became a major geopolitical factor during World War II, when the USSR invaded eastern Poland, resulting in the split of Poland's territory between the USSR and Nazi Germany roughly along the Curzon Line in accordance with final rounds of secret negotiations surrounding the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line

Why is it a land grab if that was the start?

Preparing to defend against Nazi Germany without the land grabs

The "land grabs" happened after Germany started conquering. The preparations had to be made before.

I am no expert at all so please correct me if I am wrong but I think that only the SU made suggestions for, as Tolc mentions, "collective security". What else should they have done?