The role of the Soviet Union in defeating Germany was greater than that of the Western Allies

First of all, I'm sorry I didn't put any sources. I'll do it this time(my first debate)."The Soviets didn't really send supplies to the Germans. I would agree that they helped Germany by signing the non-aggression pact instead of declaring war[...] Germany would have won in the west without any supplies sent by a foreign power. "Really? Germany would have won? During the Nazi period Germany could only supply for 25% of it's oil needs and faced the same situation with chrome, tungsten, nickel, molybdenum and manganese, all which were needed for tanks, ships and other war equipment. Not to mention rubber, essential to a countries industry. Germany got 80% of it's rubber from imports, but since the British and the Dutch stopped selling rubber and other resources from their colonies to the Germans they had to look to another source of natural resources. The United States were German's mains supplier but they knew that with the war Americans would stop sending them resources and looked to the USSR as a possible supplier.¹When the war started it was necessary for Germany to make an agreement with the Soviets. German demands only increased while they dominated other countries and the Soviet Union could provide the resources for the occupation. This is what Germany receive from the Soviets only between 11 February 1940 until the the Nazi invasion of the USSR: 1,600,000 tons of grains 900,000 tons of oil 200,000 tons of cotton 140,000 tons of manganese 200,000 tons of phosphates 20,000 tons of chrome ore 18,000 tons of rubber 100,000 tons of soybeans 500,000 tons of iron ores 300,000 tons of scrap metal and pig iron 2,000 kilograms of platinum² I'm sorry, but yes, the Soviets did send resources to Germany."Poland fought alongside the Soviet army more than it fought with the Western Allies so I would consider them to be part of the eastern front in 1944, before that, Poland was basically fighting alone."Ok, I agree with that."You claim that since the Soviets signed a non-aggression pact with Germany, the Western Allies played a more important role. You could not be more incorrect. Britain and France appeased Germany from 1933-1939. They allowed Germany to invade Chzecoslovakia, Austria, and the Rhineland's. In addition, Britain and France did nothing when Germany broke the treaty of Versailles. The Western Allies did not fight Germany until they were not attacked. As did the Soviet Union and the United States." 5Ok, let's talk about the pre-war period and who appeased whom. in France, from 1933-1940 11 from the 13 governments where leftists.³ These leftists government's really did nothing to stop the Germans. They only waited to the Germans magically disarm themselves(4). In the UK, there where 3 governments from 1933-1939, which the first was a leftist and the other two where conservatives(5). From 1931-1935 the government from Ramsay MacDonald(National Labour) and his party insisted in opposing to the rearmament. The following government of Stanley Baldwin(1935-1937) started a rearmament(6). Then, the government of Neville Chamberlain tried to stop Germany from annexing other countries but could do nothing because he didn't had any great allies in Europe as French leftist government's did not believe in a war against Germany for a long time(7). So you're partially correct. It wasn't Britain and France that appeased Germany, but the European left. And I'm right on saying that the Western Allies played a more important role than the Soviets. As I said, Britain tried to stop the war, while the Soviet even collaborated whit the Nazi's!"In the summer of 1942, Germany launched Case Blue[1] with the purpose of capturing Stalingrad and the OIL FIELDS of the Caucuses. From there, Germany could invade the Middle East and Capture the oil fields which were lightely defended by British troops. Germany would have had unlimited oil had they captured Baku, however the Soviets stopped them."But the Germans where in Africa since 1940 fighting alongside with Italians only against the British. If they had defeated the British in North Africa and got to the Middle East, they would not need Case Blue.(8)sources:¹http://en.wikipedia.org...(1934%E2%80%9341)#Late_1930s_German_raw_materials_crunch²http://en.wikipedia.org...(1940)#Total_trade³ http://en.wikipedia.org...4 Jean Robi, "Le livre noir de la gauche", pgs 52-565http://en.wikipedia.org...6 http://en.wikipedia.org...7 http://en.wikipedia.org...8 http://en.wikipedia.org...