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In my opinion, it was a diplomatic victory for the USSR, It enabled them to get Baltics & Eastern Poland and invade Finland without any opposition.

>I don’t think that Stalin was a Nazi
He was a communist.

>I just think Stalin was a Social-Imperialist
Does the word of imperialism just mean invading other countries for you? Also, I don't get why we assume Imperialism=Undesirable by default. It holds nothing more in quality than simply saying "Imperialism is bad" ( why? )

https://histdoc.net/pdf/A_Statement_by_Stalin_on_Allied_Responsibility_30.11.1939.pdf

From a statement of Stalin published in Pravda:

A STATEMENT BY STALIN ON ALLIED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WAR

29 November 1939 Mirovoe Khosiaistvo, 1939, 12, p. 15

The editor of Pravda asked Comrade Stalin for his opinion of the Havas report of the speech allegedly made by Stalin to the Politburo on 19 August, in which he is said to have expressed the thought that ‘the war should go on as long as possible, so that the belligerents are exhausted’.
Comrade Stalin has replied as follows:
This Havas report, like many of its reports, is a lie. Of course, I do not know in which particular café chantant this lie was invented. But whatever lies the gentlemen from Havas may tell, they cannot deny that:
(a)It was not Germany that attacked France and England, but France and England that attacked Germany, taking on themselves responsibility for the present war;
(b)After the outbreak of hostilities Germany made peace proposals to France and England, and the Soviet Union publicly supported Germany’s peace proposals, since it thought and still thinks
that a quick end to the war would radically ease the situation of all countries and peoples;
(c)The ruling circles of England and France rudely rejected both Germany’s peace proposals, and the Soviet Union’s efforts to bring the war quickly to an end.
These are the facts. What can the café chantant politicians of the Havas agency put against these facts?

So basically, at least in public, Stalin was in favour of restoring the status quo / multipolarity ( notice how this statement is made before the fall of France ) by urging Allied nations to back off from defending Poland. ( which was half annexed by the USSR at that time )

But you must also consider that before the declaration of friendship between the USSR & Nazi Germany, USSR had tried to appeal Allied nations to stand against Germany together, and each time they were rejected.

I couldn't blame the USSR for the realpolitik. France, Britain, Germany, Italy were all bourgeouis states and there is no point in supporting France & Britain unless it threatens the state of the proletariat.