Cartoon Demands the government take over of businesses to do war crimes
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If this had happened, WW2 would not have happened. Germany offered peace terms after the invasion of Poland. France and UK told them to pound sand (encouraged by FDR). They sued for peace again after the invasion of France / driving the British expeditionary force back across the channel. Shit only dialed up to 11 after the Soviets seeing Germany beginning to fall into a quagmire, started preparing an invasion of Europe.
See the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact for how well peace treaties with Germany worked out
There is ample evidence that Barbarossa was in response to an impending Soviet invasion, the English language wiki is more critical of the idea than sources from outside the Anglosphere.
This is backed up by Stalin's comments about the peace being temporary.
I'm sure Stalin was up to something, but blitzing all the way to Moscow isn't the kind of plan you just make up in a few months.
It can be. Barbarossa has always been a head scratcher for professional and amateur historians alike. By all accounts Germany was outmanned and out gunned going into the offensive. The traditional, and pretty unsatisfactory, explanation is that Hitler was a madman bent on world domination. Suvelov's proposal of a desperate preemptive strike makes a lot more sense. As to why Germany made it as far as they did; if the Soviets were posturing for offence, striking first gave Germany a chance. An army preparing for invasion is organized completely different from one preparing for defense; most of Soviet war materiel was at the front line and once they lost that they were at a severe disadvantage for some time.