As your own link states, this wasn't an alliance. Also if you read the "background" section of the article, you'll see that they very much saw Nazi Germany has a major threat and wanted to contains them early by allying France and Britain.
But France and particularly Britain instead prefered trying to appease Germany until the last minute with the results we know.
The non-agression pact might seem cynical from the west point of view, but if you put yourself in the soviet shoes for a second, it was a logical move.
As for your second link it's really not very assertive, most of the claims made early after the war were rebutted by historians later on.
It says it wasn't a "formal alliance". The Nazi-Soviet pact was alliance for practical purposes as seen with joint "victory parades" with the Wehrmacht and Red Army and expanded trading.
> was alliance for practical purposes as seen with joint "victory parades"
Alliance would mean joint fighting, not joint parading. Yes they secretly divided Europe on a map, and agreed not to fight over it, that not an alliance.
> I'm not sure what specific "rebutted by historians" you're talking about
Your second link on the French communist party activities during 39-41. It's like you didn't even read what you linked as source:
> but later historians have downplayed the PCF's role in any such actions, stating that they were isolated cases
As your own link states, this wasn't an alliance. Also if you read the "background" section of the article, you'll see that they very much saw Nazi Germany has a major threat and wanted to contains them early by allying France and Britain.
But France and particularly Britain instead prefered trying to appease Germany until the last minute with the results we know.
The non-agression pact might seem cynical from the west point of view, but if you put yourself in the soviet shoes for a second, it was a logical move.
As for your second link it's really not very assertive, most of the claims made early after the war were rebutted by historians later on.