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Not likely. Hitler did not consider Stalin a reliable and trusted trade partner. Stalin could turn off the hose anytime he wanted.

Interestingly, Soviet trains reportedly rolled across the border with raw materials until the hour the invasion started.

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Hitler hated the communists too much to not want to attack them. And there was the racist in Hitler. He considered the Russians sub-human. Russia and the Ukraine offered Germany fields of wheat and living space.

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What Hitler considered turned out not to be wise. That's the point. He effed up.

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