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Ironically, despite fears causing the Soviet Union to enter deals with Germany in 1939, that Germany came so close to destroying the Soviet Union was due largely to Soviet actions taken from 1939 to 1941. [195] Soviet raw materials supplies had helped convince German generals, who previously had refused to even discuss a Soviet invasion, to go ...
The agreement proved to be short-lived. Just six months after it was signed, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, which ended economic relations between them. The raw materials imported by Germany from the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1941 played a major role in supporting the German war effort against the Soviet Union after 1941.
In June 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union in violation of the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and all economic agreements between the two countries ended. Between January 1940 and date of the German invasion, the USSR exported goods of a total estimated value of 597.9 million Reichsmarks to Germany.
The trade relations ended when Germany began Operation Barbarossa and invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. [74] The various items that the USSR had sent to Germany from 1939 to 1941 in significant amount, could be substituted or obtained by increased imports from other countries. [75]
German troops at the Soviet state border marker, 22 June 1941. At around 01:00 on 22 June 1941, the Soviet military districts in the border area [n] were alerted by NKO Directive No. 1, issued late on the night of 21 June. [193] It called on them to "bring all forces to combat readiness", but to "avoid provocative actions of any kind". [194]
It strongly opposed Nazi Germany until August 1939, when it came to peaceful terms with Berlin in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Moscow and Berlin by agreement invaded and partitioned Poland and the Baltic States. The non-aggression pact was broken in June 1941 when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The Soviet forces nearly collapsed as ...
During the summer of 1939, after it had conducted negotiations with a British-French alliance and with Germany regarding potential military and political agreements, [16] the Soviet Union chose Germany, which resulted in an August 19 German–Soviet Commercial Agreement providing for the trade of certain German military and civilian equipment in exchange for Soviet raw materials.
The German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty was a second supplementary protocol [1] of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 23 August 1939. [2] It was a secret clause as amended on 28 September 1939 by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union after their joint invasion and occupation of sovereign Poland. [3]