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Originally Posted by Gideon
What do you think about the Soviet Union exporting raw materials to Germany right up to hours after operation Barbarossa was started? Your country didn't stop trading with Germany even though Germany had already occupied most of western Europe, was bombing London and persecuting the jews. Maybe because Stalin was afraid of what Germany might do if provoced? He knew the Red Army couldn't stand against Germany.
What the Soviet Union did was similar to what Sweden did. So maybe we should broaden this moral debate a little?
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Surely, I'll broaden it. The trade in a war is natural thing, as well as trading partner becomes the enemy. For instance in WW1 first Russia was ally of France and Britain against Germany. At the end of WW1 British assaulted Russia. They stayed the fierce enemy for USSR and tried to blockade it's economy until their strategical considerations forced them co-operate with us against Hitler and set the naval trade. The point is not that the states do that. It is the sort of risky game contest, in which one state tries to overrun another. The point is that real powers have honour to take full responsibility to win or lose. That is honest. But there are states and societies, which always get fat in all wars just selling their services to both sides alternately like the whore, loudly blessing the stronger and condemning the loser.
In the 1944 as the Soviet Army pushed Nazis beyond the borders of USSR and started to move across Europe to Berlin, we expected there had to be bloody guerilla resistance including civilians, like our own in 1941; that all the allies and "neutral" partners of Reich will defend every square inch of it. But speed with which you gave up Germans was incredible.