Assignment 19 Ben G

Piece of advice:
You can't always trust someone until you get to know them

Think of all the crap that's happened to the world because person/country X blindly trusted person/country Y. Case in point- World War II, specifically the relationship between Fascist Germany and Stalin's USSR. in the nonaggression pact between the two, they secretly split up Poland. When the Germans invaded Poland, the Sovs did too, and everyone was satisfied. Stalin thought he could trust Hitler to keep his word, and not attack him. Unsurprisingly, he did, and it wasn't without precedent. He did happen to break his word to France and England at the exact moment the Germans crossed into Poland. Just look at how it ended up for both parties-- Germany was utterly wrecked. The USSR lost 97% of its males between the ages of 15 and 45. Utter destruction.

Granted, Stalin didn't really try to get to know Hitler, but that's beside the point.