The infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was signed on August 23, 1939. To this day, staunch supporters of the "Great Soviet Fatherland of the Peoples" maintain that "Father" Stalin's goal was to buy time so that the USSR could defend itself of Hitler's fascism. That Stalin wanted to buy time is true. But this did not stop him from helping his ally Hitler in every way, granting him valuable oil, grain and other raw materials necessary for the German - fascist, of course, war effort against the Western "imperialists".
The last category of "bad imperialists" included Greece , which, as you know, was a "plutocratic country with colonies that drank the blood of Africans and Asians"... When, on October 28, 1940, the fascist Italy of the ridiculous Mussolini attacked "imperialist" Greece, the Soviet Union and the "great" Stalin, who is still glorified by some fools in Greece, did not react. He didn't even have a word of sympathy to say about a small people who were fighting for their freedom against a truly fascist and imperialist country that was, however, an ally...
Little Greece, struggling against a great European power, asked for help from everywhere. Its military needs were so great and urgent that Metaxas knocked on every available door in search of armaments and ammunition. Among them, unknown to many, he also knocked on the door of the Soviet Union, which fought for the freedom of the peoples of his "father" Stalin, the "hero" Belogiannis later praised, the one who even today is considered a great leader by some in Greece.
At the end of December 1940 the Greek Minister of Defense Nikolaos Papadimas visited the Soviet ambassador in Athens and presented him with an official request from Greece for the supply of arms and ammunition. There had been a similar strike earlier, but the USSR had not even bothered to respond. The ambassador received the letter and promised to respond after first consulting his government. But an answer was never given... Little Greece, a trash of imperialism, did not deserve the help of the homeland of the "people's democracy"... Fascist Italy, however, deserved at least the tolerance of the USSR.
Politics is cold, pragmatic to the point of a felony. Looking for romance in her is like looking for a flea in a haystack. However, such inconsistency of words and deeds is hard to find in history. Little Greece, that wretched imperialist power, which wanted to conquer the good fascist Italy, nevertheless wrote golden pages of glory and IN, literally, Stalin's head, delaying the German attack against the USSR... So we don't forget.