Why did Germany fight with the powerful Soviet Union in World War II? In fact, the Soviet Union also made preparations
Looking back at the history of human wars, we will find that no war can compare with the scale of the Second World War, and the Soviet-German battlefield is one of the main battlefields of this century's war, and the fierceness of the war is far beyond ordinary people's imagination. Over time, the German army's war potential was gradually exhausted, and after the Battle of Kursk, the Red Army completely grasped the strategic initiative and finally succeeded in driving the German army away. Due to the particularity of the Soviet-German war, the discussion of it by later generations has never stopped, and some people have proposed that if Germany had not fought with the Soviet Union, the outcome of World War II might have been different. So why did Germany launch an offensive against the militarily powerful Soviet Union?
Every decision people make is usually the result of a combination of factors, and the same is true of this war. The reason why Germany insisted on attacking the Soviet Union was mainly due to the following reasons, the first of which was that after Hitler came to power, his ambitions swelled rapidly, and the lack of domestic resources hindered his economic development process, and he needed more territory and resources to develop, so hitler's authorities decided to dominate all of Europe. The Soviet Union and britain can be said to be the last bastions of Europe at that time, but in the face of the powerful British navy, Germany, which was backward in naval combat, had no choice but to target the Soviet Union. The second is that the Soviet Union has a vast territory, rich in oil, coal mines and other war-ready resources, and where is Germany, which lacks resources, willing to let go of the fat meat of the Soviet Union?
The third reason is that the Soviet Union and Germany also had strong expansionist ambitions, which can be seen from the joint annexation of Poland by the Soviet Union and Germany. After this, the Soviet Union also occupied Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as parts of Finland and Romania, and deployed more than two million Soviet Red Army troops on the Soviet-German border, while also transporting a large number of tanks and fighters to the front, with the potential to attack Germany at any time. Relevant historical data also prove this, in fact, the Soviet Union has been planning the "Great Thunderstorm Plan" to attack Germany, and it can be said that the Soviet Union has also made a lot of preparations for this.
Seeing this, Germany, which was busy expanding, anticipated that there would be a war between the Soviet Union and Germany, and in order to prevent the Red Army from attacking when its own troops were scattered, it was better to attack first. So under hitler's leadership, Germany took the lead in implementing the Barbarossa Plan and launched an attack on the Soviet Union, and the subsequent outcome must have been seen by everyone, because the German army failed to make a quick decision, with the arrival of the cold winter, the German fascists also embarked on the end.