If Russia didn't have lots of good farmland and oil, it's unlikely Hitler would have bothered invading. Before the war, both grain and oil were exported from Russia to Germany.

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Craig Berry <cdberry@gmail.com> wrote:
If there's nothing worth shipping in quantity, what's worth invading to obtain? Shipping is much cheaper and much safer than invasion. Unless there's a lot of shipping, invasion seems implausible.

How much shipping did it take for Hitler to create the concept of "lebensraum?"

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