I have Eric Hobsbawm's autobiography, Interesting Times, so I looked to see what he has to say about the Hitler-Stalin pact. He doesn't dedicate much space to it, but he honestly admits that he did not question it at the time.
He wrote the autobiography when he was in his mid 80's, over 60 years after the events and so he says that it's impossible for him to reconstruct exactly what he thought at the time, which seems plausible to me since at age 78 it would be hard for me to reconstruct what I thought at age 17 with all its nuances, given the changes in the zeitgeist and my intellectual and psychological development.
I have Eric Hobsbawm's autobiography, Interesting Times, so I looked to see what he has to say about the Hitler-Stalin pact. He doesn't dedicate much space to it, but he honestly admits that he did not question it at the time.
He wrote the autobiography when he was in his mid 80's, over 60 years after the events and so he says that it's impossible for him to reconstruct exactly what he thought at the time, which seems plausible to me since at age 78 it would be hard for me to reconstruct what I thought at age 17 with all its nuances, given the changes in the zeitgeist and my intellectual and psychological development.