Yeah, you're right about 1939, I misrembered. But that wasn't the first aproach from the USSR to the Western powers. Hence the Italo-Soviet Pact. I also don't want to paint the Soviets as the 'good guys' of this war.
But this statement: 'That Russians today call WWII "The Great Patriotic War" I personally find laughable.'
That's very laughable, mate. They fought the most intensiv war in all of human history. 27 million people dead. And they won.