On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Craig Berry <cdberry@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

As you said upthread, trade is cheaper than invasion. So the decision to invade wasn't based on economics, but on psychology.

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