Russians and Revolutions

>>1985621
Because Germany in WW1 just wanted Russia out of the war. Hitler wanted total extermination of Russian slavs and he did not give a shit whether a democratic or even a fascist government can possibly take over in Moscow.

>>1985639
But wouldn't it be obviously leagues easier to invade a nation which is once again riddled with internal strife?

>>1985621
Wouldn't have worked. The Soviet Union wasn't perceived as militarily weakened or politically disoriented by decades of countercultural activity. It had a political system made by THE people the Tsarist regime had been banishing to Siberia before, and they knew how to do it better.

>>1985658
As far as im aware there was plenty of resentment toward the soviet union in the union still. The germans just didnt put them to proper use as far as im aware.

Because the Nazis were uncreative, and utterly blinded by their ideology. The believed that brute force and sheer willpower could win any battle, and to a certain point they were correct, however they didn't realize that willpower and brute force weren't uniquely German attributes until it was too late.

>>1985669
The control of the party cabinet was overwhelming even until 1939. There was no meaningful part of state that was not cowed by politics. No revolutionary fund programs. No opponents left for Leninism, which was then phased from loyalty to fear of Stalinism.

Only after the Finnish campaign Germany beheld the Soviet Union as militarily incapable.