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It's not unknown that taking on Russia stretched Nazi Germany's resources. However it is also known that between 1939 and 1941 Russia and Germany had an accord
by celticninja 6y ago
It's not unknown that taking on Russia stretched Nazi Germany's resources. However it is also known that between 1939 and 1941 Russia and Germany had an accord and were allies. That was until Germany invaded russia is 1941. So the German army that invaded russia in 1941 had already been fighting Britain and the allied forces for 2 years, significantly weakening them and stretching their resources.
- gdy 6y ago"between 1939 and 1941 Russia and Germany had an accord and were allies" That's false. Russia and Germany had a non-aggression pact. Also you should read about the Munich Agreement[0], that preceded the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and clearly shown that no one was willing to fight Germany and protect Czechoslovakia besides the USSR. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement
- celticninja 6y agoYou say potato...
- gdy 6y agoYou are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts. The fact is that the USSR and Germany signed a non-aggression pact, not a treaty of alliance. You can read the text [0] yourself and see that there is nothing resembling a war alliance. [0] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pa...
- eveningcoffee 6y agoI clearly looks like an alliance to take over other countries. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact#Secret_Additional_Protocol https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pa... They even divided Poland in a coordinated attack on two fronts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military_parade_in_Brest-Litovsk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military... It is not the name that matters but content and actions.
- sergeykish 6y agoOh, the start of the war was awful in so many aspects, there were no rights. Second Polish Republic was aggressive state [1], [2]. It partitioned Czechoslovakia with Germany and Hungary in 1938. Soviets border on Poland lies about what was defined in Treaty of Versailles [3]. It does not excuse anything just show mixed things were. Have no idea about other parts of the German Soviet border [4]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Czechoslovak_border_conflicts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Czechoslovak_bo... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Ukrainian_War [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Border_and_Commercial_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Border_a...
- gdy 6y agoHave you actually read the content?
- sergeykish 6y agoCan we agree that both Germany and USSR gained territories as result [1], [2]? And they were trade partners [3]? And, yes, France and UK helped that to happen. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Baltic_states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Baltic_state... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Credit_Agreement_(1939) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Credit_A...
- gdy 6y agoThe USSR gained so much needed strategic depth, the Germany gained Lebensraum. Which country wasn't trading with Nazi Germany?
- sergeykish 6y ago"Germany gained so much needed strategic depth" - somehow Germany evil, USSR not - flawed logic
- gdy 6y agoYou are welcome to present a Soviet equivalent of the Lebensraum concept.
- sergeykish 6y agoGulag [1], Purges [2], man made famine [3], restriction of movement [4], population as means for World Revolution [5], imperialism [6]. Bolsheviks were terrorists [7], the state evolved from terrorists organisation. It should be shamed just as we shame Fascists. Meanwhile in Russia Stalin popularity is record high [8]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%9333 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%93... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_revolution [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Empire [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror [8] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47975704 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47975704