Also the same Stalin who literally bankrolled the German invasion of Norway and France https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Commercial_Agreeme

Also the same Stalin who literally bankrolled the German invasion of Norway and France https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Commercial_Agreement_(1940) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Commer... Germany had no oil after invading Poland. Almost all of it was imported over the ocean (IIRC mainly US). In theory the allies could have just waited them out. And then the Soviets sent that massive amounts of war materials due to “reasons”.. I guess. Barbarossa couldn’t have happened without that either. France/Britain were even seriously considering bombing the Soviet oil fields in Azerbaijan and intervening in Finland before France fell.