I think Hitler would've invaded no matter what as he viewed the bolsheviks as mortal enemies.
In any case I've read, in a # of texts, that Stalin planned to attack Germany in 1942 anyway.
So it seems that Hitler was correct, the bolsheviks *were* mortal enemies...

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On Thu, 5/7/15, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Finding transport
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Thursday, May 7, 2015, 5:48 PM

 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 <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Craig
 Berry <xxxxxx@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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 accident."  Robert A. Heinlein"A word
 to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones
 that need the advice." - Bill Cosby"We
 know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us
 dangerous." Dean Winchester

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