Why do some people say that the Soviet Union was the initiator of World War II?

The USSR was World War II.

An important country of the anti-fascist coalition, an anti-fascist war for the people of the world.

The victory made immortal feats, but objectively speaking, the Soviet Union was also one of the initiators of World War II. The beginning of World War II began on September 1, 1939, when the German invasion of Poland began, but at the same time the Soviet army also invaded Poland, and the Soviet Union and Germany partitioned Poland. The Soviets also created a monstrous Katyn** in Poland, where about 10,000 Polish soldiers, intellectuals, politicians and public officials were killed by the Soviet army!

The Soviet Union did not trust Britain and France, and out of concern for its own national security, the Soviet Union signed the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact with Germany in 1939

After Germany negotiated with the Soviet Union to divide up Poland and Eastern European spheres of influence, and received guarantees of neutrality from the Soviet Union, Hitler.

Decided to give it a go. On February 24, 1940, the Germans began Operation Blitzkrieg, which successively destroyed Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, France, and Belgium.

Norway and other countries, and fierce air war with the United Kingdom, this time in July 1940.

When Germany swept through the countries of Western Europe, the Soviet Union was building the Eastern Front! October 1939 In March 1940, the Soviet-Finnish War broke out, and the Soviet Union invaded Finland.

A large area of land. In June 1940, the Soviet Union occupied all of Romania. In July 1940, the Soviet Union annexed Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, three countries along the Baltic Sea.

The establishment of the Eastern Front enabled the Soviet Union to increase its territory by more than 460,000 square kilometers, with a population of more than 22 million, and the western border was advanced to the west by about 300,400 kilometers, which increased the defense space to a certain extent.

Around July 1940, German Führer Hitler arranged for Field Marshal Paulus to draw up a "Barbarossa" battle plan for attacking the Soviet Union. At the same time, the head of the USSR, Stalin.

The "Great Thunderstorm Plan", which was being planned to attack Germany, was introduced earlier than the Barbarossa Plan, but because the Soviet Union's war preparations had not yet met the requirements of the attack, the German Barbarossa Plan was one step ahead. We can imagine how World War II would have developed if the "Great Thunderstorm Plan" had succeeded and the Soviet Union had defeated Germany in one fell swoop?

On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the "Barbarossa" battle plan, and 3.2 million German troops attacked the Soviet Union from three directions. German Army Group North.

The goal was to cross the Baltic states into northern Russia and occupy or destroy Leningrad, with a total strength of 26 divisions. The objective of the German Army Group was to attack Smolensk, pass through the region of the central and western part of the Soviet Union (now Belarus), and capture Moscow, with a total strength of 49 divisions. The objective of the German Army Group South was to attack Ukraine, the densely populated agricultural heartland.

Capture Kyiv, then into the southern Russian steppes up to the Volga and the oil-rich Caucasus, with a total strength of 41 divisions. The "Barbarossa" operation plan lasted for half a year, and the Soviet Union lost about 4.5 million troops.

Because some people felt that the Soviet Union had ambitions and wanted to expand its territory, they secretly instigated the launching of World War II, hoping to reap the benefits of the fisherman, and they believed that the Soviet Union was the initiator of World War II.

Because we all know that the Soviet Union made its fortune by war, there are many people who believe that the Soviet Union was the initiator of World War II.

Because the rise of fascism was all because of the existence of the Soviet Union, the United States raised two fascists in order to contain the Soviet Union.

The countries invaded by the Soviet Union were Hungary, Czechoslovakia, China, and Afghanistan, which showed that the Soviet Union was very powerful at that time, and caused strong harm to other countries. Because when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the two armies had a relatively violent impact, and this war also caused a great deal of success to the Soviet Union, which was also one of the main reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union. Clear socks.

Hungary, Somalia, Afghanistan, China, Czechoslovakia, and the cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union was that there were problems in political ideology, serious imbalances in the economic structure, and serious problems in foreign relations, so it led to the disintegration. It's a relative.

He has invaded China, Somalia, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Because there was a serious economic crisis in the Soviet Union at that time, coupled with the serious mistakes of anti-Marxism and blind worship of Stalinism, the Soviet Union would collapse with pure faith.

These countries are Hungary, Czechoslovakia, China, Somalia. Because of the collapse of the Soviet economic system at that time, the Society Kaisui Association was in turmoil, and it worshiped the Si ethnic group Chong Dalinism excessively, so it finally disintegrated and stared.

There was the war of aggression against Czechoslovakia in 1968, the conflict with China on Zhenbao Island, which almost led to a full-scale war, and the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

The Soviet Union was a federal socialist country that existed from 1922 to 1991 and was the country with the largest land area in the world at that time.

occupy most of Eastern Europe, as well as almost all of Central and North Asia; It is bordered by Norway, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It is separated by Sweden, Japan, the United States and Canada.

After World War II, the big brother of the Soviet Union led everyone to defeat the German fascists, and the strength of the Soviet Union was unprecedentedly improved, and only the United States could compete with it in the whole world, but the United States has always been in a weak position.

To what extent the former Soviet Union's comprehensive combat capability in World War II was strong should be looked at separately. Specifically, there are the following aspects:

1. Strong industrial capacity: second in the world - this means that as long as it has enough time, it can recover and build a large amount of equipment.

2. The Soviet Union's strategic depth is large: there is a 5,000-kilometer-long Siberian buffer zone on the east side (which leads to the fact that Japan will not dock with Germany with the Soviet Union, because the losses are too big and the gains are too small, and no normal country will give up its national fortunes for the sake of another country).

P.S. The Siberian region of the USSR has an extremely terrible climate - "Moscow's cold winter"! A total of 1,000 German troops froze to death in the 1,000-kilometer-long western part of the Soviet Union, while Siberia was 5,000 kilometers long and had a harsher climate!

3. The Soviet Union has a large population: Although the population does not fully represent the national strength and combat power, no one is sure that it will not be able to fight. At that time, the number of people in the overall level of combat played a huge role! The Soviet Union had sufficient mobilization capacity, which meant that it was able to withstand considerable losses.

4. Ally support. There is no need to worry about war materials: in fact, in the middle of World War II, it was the American economy and Soviet personnel who were hit, and the Soviet army not only used a considerable amount of equipment produced in the United States, but other materials were also replenished accordingly.

The military power of the USSR at that time was very large. They had a lot of lethalities, and in the end they defeated Germany.

1 It was difficult for the USSR to cope with the Eastern Front on its own.

If the Soviet Union could complete the war on Germany's eastern front on its own, then the US imperialists would not have to pay huge losses in manpower and material resources. The materials of US imperialism to support the Soviet Union are n times that of China, and the materials are almost innumerable in addition to equipment and raw materials. If it weren't for the urgency of 100,000, the always shrewd US imperialists would not have spent any money on the Soviets.

2 Germany is more dangerous than the Soviet Union for US imperialism.

Neither of these two countries was an ally of US imperialism, and before the war, Britain, the United States and France all hoped that the Soviet Union and Germany would attack each other.

But Germany was clearly stronger and more dangerous than the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was only an ideological distinction between the West, the Germans simply wanted to exterminate other peoples other than the Aryans, and Hitler relied on stupid slogans to get the support of the Germans, and he was bound to be beaten hard by the US imperialists.

3 Even if the Soviet Union won the war, it could not threaten the West.

The reason is very simple, if the Soviet Union can be strong enough to threaten the Western world, then it is inevitable that the United States and Britain will stop all aid at the end of the war, such as 45 years, during World War II, and instead support Germany on a small scale, so that the Soviet-German war will last longer and consume more Soviet-German strength.

It is very simple for US imperialism to consume the strength of the Soviet Union in 45 years, as long as the materials that aid the Soviets are given to Germany, the Soviets will inevitably pay more sacrifices, such as 10 million more people. The failure to do so must be due to the fact that the benefits outweigh the humanitarian losses.

Because there is a common enemy, Germany.

No meat top in front, take the face output.

At that time, the United States was already the world's strongest manufacturing country and financial power. If the United States does not send troops, Europe will be reunified, and the world will be Europe, not the United States. This is the strategic level.

It's easy to find a tactical justification to convince millions of Americans to die and spend trillions of taxpayers' dollars.

In addition, during World War II, the United States was in the Great Depression. War is the best way to consume resources, referring to modern times, the United States controlled the world's oil by launching the Gulf War and the Iraq War. It's the same thing, but on a different scale.

Also, they are not in the United States.

As the initiator of the war in World War II, Germany aimed Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union from the beginning to the end.

The economy is the foundation of the war, but if you want to develop the economy, it must be based on the land, although in today's economic globalization, the vast map is not necessarily an economic necessity, but in World War II the land means living space. According to Hitler, "the size of the country not only determines the national food and raw materials, but also has important military and political significance." Germany has never been a world power, because it is confined to its existing borders, and because the population of Germany is already grossly disproportionate to the size of the country, and the German nation is bound to decline."

Although it is a bit too absolute to say that the Soviet Union was one of the initiators of World War II, after all, the Soviet Union was the country that lost the most people during World War II, but it is obviously inaccurate to portray the Soviet Union as a mere victim.

For the country, there are no eternal enemies, no eternal friends, only eternal interests.

The game between various countries in the international community is very complicated. Maybe today you and I are close allies, and tomorrow we will fight you to the death. Germany and the Soviet Union are typical of it.

For example, the following ** Soviet and German armies triumphantly met in Poland in 1939. <>

For the Soviet Union, although it belonged to European countries, the vast land of the Soviet Union undoubtedly made it more influential in Asia, and the other hegemon in Asia was Britain, which was known as the empire on which the sun never set. The fall of Britain was undoubtedly extremely beneficial for the Soviet Union at that time. At this time, the USSR was faced with two options.

One, to unite Germany against Britain. Second, the destruction of Germany. But neither option, Britain will agree.

The first one needs no explanation. Second, why Britain would not want the Soviet Union to destroy Germany. Britain also has its own considerations, benefiting from the natural barrier of the English Channel.

Therefore, Britain pursued a "balancing strategy" in Europe, and could not let France be too strong, nor could it make Germany too weak. It is in the best interests of Britain to let them exercise strategic balance and check each other. Undoubtedly, either choice of the Soviet Union would undermine Britain's strategic interests.

History tells us that the Soviet Union chose the first path, but this time it chose the wrong one.

In 1934, Karl Radek (who he was, if you are interested, you can search for it) even openly wrote in the newspaper Izvestia that "since the Soviet Union and fascist Italy are good friends, then there is no reason why fascist Germany and the Soviet Union should not come together".

Subsequently, the Soviet Union signed the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact with Germany in order to bring disaster to the west, and in the partition of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, we can see the attitude of the Soviet Union. Then, like Germany, a frenzied aggressive policy began, and Finland, Romania, and the three Baltic countries were all brutally attacked by the Soviet Union in order to strengthen the depth of the Soviet Union's defense. In World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union were on the same foot, but Germany was destined not to be friends in the face of the vast land of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union could only stand in the anti-fascist camp.

There is no reason to say that the Soviet Union was the initiator of World War II, because the Soviet Union just wanted to get a piece of the pie, but it was not the initiator, and the initiator was Germany.

I think that the first war of World War II was fought in Poland, and Germany has been planning for this war for a long time。Because Hitler wanted to calm the revolution at home through the idea of "resolving contradictions with blood". So Germany set its sights on Poland, and through a premeditated and disciplined battle plan, Germany carried out a lightning attack, which made Poland unable to parry.

At that time, Germany grabbed all the way to the pond and plundered the land, and in the end, only the capital of Poland had not been captured, and Germany also invested a lot of troops here, in order to reduce the consumption of troops, they wanted to make the Poles surrender automatically, and fight a bloodless battle, but the Poles refused to surrender.

At this time, Stalin could not sit still, and the last city of Poland was left uncaptured, and if the last city was also forced to surrender by Germany, the Soviet Union would not even be able to drink soup。In addition, at the beginning of the establishment of Poland, there was a big fight with the Soviet Union over the border issue, when the Soviet Union in order to solve its own internal revolution, no time to take into account the struggle with Poland, so it hastily signed the "Rio Agreement", which required the Soviet Union to make concessions to Poland in disputed land, after signing the contract, this has always become a thorn in Stalin's heart, has always wanted to destroy this contract. At this time, Stalin took advantage of Germany's attack on Poland, and Stalin sent troops to Poland on the grounds of safeguarding national interests.

The day after Germany issued the instrument of surrender to the Polish capital, Stalin hastily assembled his troops and marched towards Poland, which was broken by the enemy in just over a month. It is precisely because the Soviet Union participated in this time that there is a saying that the Soviet Union is also one of the initiators of World War II, but we delve into the fact that the Soviet Union did not want to cause a world war like Germany, but only wanted to destroy the unequal treaties of its own country and go to get a piece of the pie.