Originally Posted by
Bill Greenwood
Zack, sorry to see a thread closed. I think Floats brought up a very good point about the alliance between Hitler and Stalin for 2 years at the start of the war. I really didnt know much about that, went back to check on it and learned more about it. Apparetly Stalin was trying to ally with Britain and France in 39 but was not accepted and made a deal with Htiler.
Certainly a good thing that Hitler made the huge mistake of attacking Russia, maybe he was tempted when they saw how badly the Russians had fared when attacking the small country of Norway.
Russia was a huge asset to the Allies in the rest of the war, took a lot of losses and took a huge toll of German troops, eventually had a significant air force after serving mostly as targets for Me 109s at the start of the war.