Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "‘But TIK, the reason WHY Hitler started WW2 makes no sense!’" video.
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@auguststorm2037 You're the closest poster to what happened. Stalin's pitch to Warsaw was that he wanted a 40-80 mile wide exclusive zone for Soviet forces ( the Red Army ) to attack westward. That zone was never nailed down -- as it was a non-starter with Warsaw. Based on the rail grid there were just not that many spots that could possibly support the Red Army in Stalin's scenario. The Polish rail grid, no surprise, netted around Warsaw, itself. Since Berlin had to be the focus of any Red offensive, Stalin was a rotten ally -- even logistically. This is something that is always left off the table by historians.
BTW, note how Stalin's Pact was certain to include Brest-Litovsk East of Stalin's division line. Yeah, he crayoned in how much of Poland he be given by the Nazis in his Pact. That document was produced by Yeltsin direct from Soviet archives a generation ago. Yeltsin's revelations are so inconvenient that twenty-years on -- they are totally ignored. BTW, the Pact settled on 9-01-39 as the invasion date for BOTH Hitler and Stalin. In the event, Stalin conned Hitler and the world by stalling his invasion. He lied to Berlin that his boys couldn't be mobilized all that quickly. This was a bald-faced lie. His huge tank armies would've rolled across eastern Poland even quicker than Germany's XIX Panzer Corps.
The M-R Pact was Stalin's Pact and it was TOTALLY one-sided. It was a Contract for War. In it the stop-lines for their mutual war of conquest were pre-negotiated -- if you can call Stalin's deal any kind of negotiation. Hitler had NO INPUT -- nor did Rippin-fool. The Nazis were THAT desperate for war... as part of the Pact was Stalin's economic rescue of the Nazi economy. Over Poland's dead body, Hitler gained access to Soviet oil, Soviet war-critical metals, foodstuffs -- even a back-door to rubber. The counter-trade included everything from ball-bearings to machine tools. These latter items are virtually ALWAYS over-looked as to why the Nazis wanted to invade the USSR. The army was up in arms about providing the most advanced metals technology to their next, and ultimate, enemy. But these were the ONLY exportable items that Nazi Germany had to offer Stalin. She lacked any commodities, as Stalin had plenty of everything.
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