Editing Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (section)

==== Soviet-Nazi Trade ====
[[File:German Soviet Trade.png|thumb|398x398px]]
One argument that libshit retards like to use is that the USSR provided numerous raw materials to Nazi Germany between 1939-41, and as such, this proves an 'alliance' existed, or at least, it is evidence of 'special' collaboration, as Germany was fighting the Western allies. So, why would the USSR give crucial raw materials to Germany throughout this period?

For one, trade is not evidence of an alliance, and this trade wasn't even significant either! It was minimal, only providing 8% of German imports in total,<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/20170949</ref> at a very liberal estimate. It is also worth nothing that the Soviet Union did not just hand the Nazis these material, they also got vital machinery and military equipment from the Nazis throughout this period.

None of this material was particularly vital for the invasion of France, as scholarly sources state.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/20028994</ref>

Largely, Nazi raw materials came from nations other than the USSR. Oil fields at Ploiesti, Romania, for one, provided 58% of Germany's total oil imports in 1940. Hitler even claimed that "the life of the Axis depends on those oilfields".<ref>https://yris.yira.org/essays/ulei-romana-during-world-war-ii-and-beyond-development-of-the-romanian-oil-industry/</ref> Hitler also received large amounts of foodstuffs from Romania.<ref>https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,771596,00.html</ref> Most iron ore came from countries like Sweden and Switzerland.

In regard to rubber, the Nazis received the majority of their rubber from invasion & blatantly stealing it. Very little rubber was imported in 1940 compared to the amounts stolen.<ref name=":3">https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/download/353/330/</ref> The Nazis also had seized French rubber industries, which in 1940 was the world's fourth largest global producer of rubber.<ref name=":3" />