History is thick and rigorous, but this does not prevent people from analyzing what happened in history to restore the impact of this event on the historical process, and especially the kind of event with great influence, it is more necessary to think, today we will talk about "Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union", why did Hitler insist on attacking the Soviet Union? What would have happened if he had not fought the Soviet Union?
In European history, Hitler and Napoleon were both people who had almost unified the European continent, but unfortunately they both lost the war with the Soviet Union (Russia), which makes people wonder why the Soviet Union has repeatedly become a "stumbling block to European unification". It seems that this is all because of the special military status of the Soviet Union, first of all, the Soviet Union is sparsely populated and rich in resources, and then the Soviets are ambitious from beginning to end, and have been expanding their territory, Napoleon or Hitler, they know that if they want to unify Europe, they must first stabilize the Soviet Union, otherwise the front and back attack will lead to total loss.
Take Germany, for example, before Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Germany could be described as invincible in Europe, and no country in Europe could match it. Germany took only a month to conquer Paris, and even supported a French puppet government, as for the small countries near Western Europe, it was even more trembling, as if Europe was about to be unified, but with Germany's defeat in the Soviet Union, the situation was instantly reversed by the German army, which was deep in the quagmire of war, and there was not enough heavy troops to ensure the supply of winter, so the German army suffered heavy losses.
In fact, in the final analysis, the real reason for Hitler's insistence on attacking the Soviet Union was because of the Treaty of Brest, as early as September 1, 1939, when the German army carried out a blitzkrieg against Poland, the Soviet Union also invaded Poland from the east, and Poland, which was attacked on both sides, could only surrender to the Nazi German army and the Soviet Red Army at the same time, Germany and the Soviet Union held a grand military parade in order to celebrate such victory, and a week after the parade, the Soviet Union signed a treaty, the east was given to the Soviet Union, the west belonged to Germany, and Poland disappeared from the map.
At this time, Britain and France can not look down, to know that these two countries have long signed an alliance treaty with Poland, as early as when Germany and the Soviet Union attacked Poland, Britain and France have declared war on Germany, this time is very interesting, you said that the Soviet Union also invaded Poland, why did Britain and France not declare war with the Soviet Union but only die Germany? Is it because you are afraid of hurting and getting angry? At the end of World War I, the Soviet government and the Allies (including the Second German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire) signed a peace treaty - the Treaty of Brest (March 3, 1918), in which the Soviet Russia ceded millions of square kilometers of land to Germany and other countries in exchange for worldwide recuperation, tightened the consolidation of domestic power, and gathered strength. Afterwards, it was necessary to pay 6 billion marks to Germany and others, just to ask that during this period, Germany would not interfere in the internal affairs of Soviet Russia.
This harsh peace treaty not only deprived Soviet Russia of nearly one million square kilometers of land and nearly fifty million inhabitants, but also accounted for 90% of the country's coal mining, 73% of iron ore, 54% of industry and 33% of railways in the occupied areas. But unexpectedly, not long after Germany was defeated, Germany signed an armistice agreement with Britain, the United States, France and other Allies on November 13, 1918, and when Russia saw this opportunity, it immediately tore up the pact with Germany and forced Germany to sign and abandon the "unreasonable demand" made to Russia in the Treaty of Brest.
Therefore, when Germany and the Soviet Union later divided Poland, the territory occupied by the Soviet Union originally belonged to Tsarist Russia and later Soviet Russia during the war, and according to the Treaty of Rapallo and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, it should still belong to Soviet Russia after the war. Therefore, Britain and France had no reason to declare war on the Soviet Union.
Similarly, the Soviet Union later took back all the territories of Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania on this reason, as well as parts of Finland and Poland, so the Treaty of Brest affected the course and development of World War II in a sense, during World War II, Germany was attacking Britain, but across the English Channel, the powerful German Army could only stare dryly, and the most irritating thing was that due to the restrictions of the previous Treaty of Versailles, Germany's weak navy can not be strong should be a decisive battle at sea, in order to defeat Britain, can only rely on the bombing of fighter jets, unfortunately, Germany's territory is small, there is not so much oil.
Originally, Germany's modern equipment was dependent on the supply of Romanian oil fields, but at this time, the Soviet Union began to attack Romania, if this succeeded, Germany's modern equipment would become scrap iron, for the sake of the overall situation, Hitler had to stop the sea lion plan and implement the Barbarossa plan. So on June 22, 1941, Hitler suddenly launched the famous Barbarossa Plan, attacking the Soviet Union, the focus of World War II also shifted from the Western Front to the Eastern Front, with the help of Britain and the United States and other Allied powers, carried Hitler's fatal blow and won a comprehensive victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, and then destroyed the German capital Berlin, forcing Hitler and Eva to commit suicide, causing Nazi Germany to surrender unconditionally. The answer is that Germany certainly won't lose so quickly, and may move back the time of World War II a little, but it will eventually lose.
As for the final outcome of world war II, everyone knows that Britain was saved, the Soviet Union was victorious, Hitler committed suicide, Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally, France was free, the United States became rich, and finally World War II ended.