Politics & Power Quote by Alfred Rosenberg

A rare moment of dread peeks through the granite confidence of a regime that sold itself on inevitability. Rosenberg’s line isn’t a moral objection to alliance with Stalin; it’s an ideologue’s anxiety that the deal is cosmically misaligned with the story National Socialism told about itself. The key word is “vengeance”: he frames geopolitics as retribution, as if history itself keeps accounts and punishes heresy.

Context sharpens the edge. The “Moscow Pact” is the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939, the cynical handshake that enabled Hitler’s invasion of Poland and Stalin’s carve-up of Eastern Europe. For Rosenberg, the regime’s chief mythmaker on race and “Bolshevism,” the pact wasn’t just tactical compromise; it was narrative sabotage. Nazism needed communism as its apocalyptic enemy to justify expansion, terror, and unity at home. Signing with Moscow risks exposing the movement’s purported principles as props, interchangeable with expediency.

The phrasing “at some time or other” is telling: he’s not predicting a specific military reversal so much as acknowledging that contradictions accumulate interest. Rosenberg’s “feeling” reads like an internal alarm, the private unease of someone who understands that propaganda relies on consistency, even when policy can’t. If you teach a population that the Soviet state is subhuman and existential, then ask them to accept it as a partner, you invite confusion, cynicism, and eventually disbelief.

The irony is brutal: his fear of “vengeance” anticipates the very turn the pact made easier - a war of annihilation in the East and, ultimately, the regime’s collapse.