Would the Soviet Union have eventually attacked Germany if Hitler

>>2435512
>Would the Soviet Union have eventually attacked Germany if Hitler didn't strike first with Operation Barbarossa?
Most likely not.

>If the Soviet Union never got involved in WWII, would the Axis Powers have eventually achieved victory?
They alredy did achieved it before Barbarossa. Britain would not survive in a war of attrition. That's speaking about Germany, Nippon never had any chance against the US.

>>2435512
Read the wages of destruction by Adam tooze. The nazis had no choice but to declare war on the union, because they had doubled down on their overheating economy after the loot infusion from France and Poland, and they thus needed another loot source to continue the overheat or to lessen the blow of economic rationalization

>>2435536
The Germans had won, but only by overheating their economy to an absurd point, which then forced their hand later.

>>2435512
>Would the Soviet Union have eventually attacked Germany if Hitler didn't strike first with Operation Barbarossa?


Probably not.

>If the Soviet Union never got involved in WWII, would the Axis Powers have eventually achieved victory?

Almost certainly not. They have no real means of bringing the war to a close, and sooner or later, the American involvement will escalate to open war. Even if they can't make a landing in the Continent, they can say, drop a bunch of nukes on Germany.


>>2435536


> Britain would not survive in a war of attrition.

Why not? They were outproducing the Germans in almost all relevant metrics, and were outside of the reach off Germany to strike decisively anyway.

>>2435564
This post is also accurate

To many in the German High command were not dedicated to Hitlers ideals. Had they all been of one mind the unity and military strength of the Axis powers could have potentially achieved a lot more. Thankfully it didn't happen that way.

>>2435512
>Would the Soviet Union have eventually attacked Germany
Probably yes, but Stalin was waiting until either Germany or Britain falls so he would finish off the winner, he didn't anticipate Hitler turning against the USSR in the middle of the war against western Allies.

>>2435512
Germany's resources shortages pretty much guaranteed that an invasion of the USSR was inevitable.

Within the non-aggression pact, there were economic agreements along with the partition of Poland, the most important of which was a trade agreement where the Soviets would ship immense amounts of oil to Germany, enough to prosecute the war in Europe.

Stalin agreed to this because it gave him leverage over Hitler as his largest supplier of oil, as Germany's armed forces consumed about 30% more fuel every month than they could produce domestically.

It was Hitler's nightmare that Stalin had the leverage to just embargo oil and grind the entire Wehrmacht to a halt in just under a year with that decision, so the invasion was planned to secure the resources for Germany to keep all production in house.

But the Soviet Union had little reason to attack Germany, as they had this economic leverage in their pocket to strongarm Hitler when they needed to. If it seemed apparent that Germany was going to win their war against the British Empire, Stalin would have placed the oil embargo to influence the war, as the Soviets had no interest in seeing Germany come out victorious in the war.

so to answer both question, no the Soviets would not have attacked, but would definitely conduct an economic war. and no, Germany probably would not have been victorious because of the threat of Soviet embargo should they come too close to complete victory in Europe.