The Nazis could have defeated the Soviet Union is WW2 in 1941

I will offer a counter rebuttals for some of his contentions as listed. Counter rebuttals Counter rebuttals for my opponent's rebuttal 1. Point 1. Ukraine accepted Nazis as liberators. Despite the fact that some Ukrainians initially accepted the Nazis as liberators, the actions of the Nazis such as preserving the collective-farm system, systematically deporting locals to Nazi Germany as slaves and carrying out the Holocaust on Ukrainian territory caused the Ukrainians to resist Nazi occupation and fold back into the Soviet Union. Point 2. Leningrad was not as helpless as my opponent would have assumed as the siege wasted nazi ammunition, time and the lives of Nazi soldiers as the city resupplied itself from the risky "road of life" on Lake Ladoga, and mounted skirmishes and steady resistance to break the siege in January of 1943 with Operation Iskra, which provided a 10 mile land corridor to provide relief to the besieged residents. Although the siege was fully lifted in the next year, the siege still proved that Leningrad was not completely helpless as my opponent implies. Counter rebuttal for my opponent's rebuttal 2. Point 1. May invasion possible. Austrian author H. Magenheimer wrote the following in "Hitler's War" (P 83): What mitigated against a theoretical invasion at the end of May or in early June was the fact that many rivers in the western Soviet Union which would have to be crossed in the course of the attack, including the Bug and the Narew, were still in flood until well into June and would therefore have presented a very disagreeable obstruction. For this reason alone,an attack after 10 June appeared to be the only realistic possibility . Magenheimer's source: Zapantis:"Hitler's Balkan Campaign,P 86 et seq. This refutes the contention that an invasion in May was viable while tactically it wasn't realistic at the time. Counter rebuttals for My opponent's rebuttal 3. Point 1. Stalin does not move East. Considering how the Soviets dismantled entire factories and set them up in remote areas of the Ural Mountains, it is likely that Stalin would move East if the city of Moscow fell (highly unlikely and may end up as a siege like Leningrad), and direct war operations near Moscow from the Ural Mountains. Point 2. Nazis as Liberators As previously mentioned in my counter rebuttals, I have stated that the local populace of Ukraine resisted the Nazis after they showed their "true" colors during occupation. From 1941 to V-E day 1945 Nazi Germany was responsible for many massacres and atrocities that disillusioned the indigenous Soviet populace that the Nazis were liberators. Since there are too many massacres I will state two which occurred during the timeline of Operation Barbarossa. In Lithuania (then annexed by the Soviet Union) the infamous Ponary Massacre July 1941- August 1944. In Ukraine (then annexed by the Soviet Union) the Genocidal Babi Yar massacres September 29-30, 1941. Both massacres are estimated to have taken the lives of approximately 100,000 people in the Ponary massacre and 100,000-150,000 in the Babi Yar massacres. Counter rebuttals for My opponent's rebuttal 4. Point 1. It should be noted that WII started in 1939 and the Axis were simply beating the Allies of the UK, France from Europe and its colonial holdings in Asia. Point 2. It should also be noted that despite its natural barriers, Siberia was rich in resources supplying oil and raw materials needed for the war against Nazi Germany. If the Empire Japan attacked Siberia, Stalin would have been forced to keep his Far-east soldiers to repel the Imperial Japanese Army as they would have marched straight to Moscow after gaining raw materials needed to maintain its own war machine from abandoned facilities. Point 3. It was thanks to Richard Sorge a Soviet Spy whose intel told the Soviets that the Empire would not invade Siberia, allowing Stalin to transfer troops in September of 1941. Point 4. Japan had already engaged in combat seizing French Indochina in 1940s placing it as a combatant of WWII well before the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. Counter rebuttal for my opponent's rebuttal 5 Point 1. 734,000 men was from a paper published by the U. S. Army's Combat Studies Institute in 1981 which concluded that Hitler's plans miscarried well before the onset of "General Winter". In conclusion; While My opponent has presented some amusing rebuttals, I feel that I have sufficiently refuted them.