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Sure, if you want to designate any random aggreement as a full on best-friends-for-life alliance, you do you, buddy. But the facts remain, Germany and the USSR were delivered facto enemies who were looking to destroy each other the first chance they get.
So how it should void the fact of their pact?
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Yes, they did sign a non-aggression pact. No, they were not allies.
If it quacks like duck, if it looks like duck, if it walks like duck - it duck.
Which fits the duck allegory perfectly, since it refers to something that is not actually a duck.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/you-know-phrase-if-looks-5...
For those interested, this particular kind of design is known as retrofuturism around the Internet. Reddit has a good subreddit on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/ I personally have once had these Sputnik razor blades: https://www.ebay.com/p/Sputnik-100-Double-Edge-Razor-Blades-... In addition to being dirt cheap, I also found the branding funny. Somehow I felt like I am buying something not very good in t…