[U-238]

In fact German WWII war machine was built from scratch with Soviet advice and some of their technology during interwar period while a few other nations cooperated with Germany.Pincer movement, blitzcrieg, combined air&mech point strike on front, airborne warfare are all parts of 20’s-30’s Soviet theories. Soviets trained German officers in their training centers and supplied them war materiels to rebuild after Versalles up to mid-30s before German-Soviet split over Spain there Stalin backed republicans and Germany backed nazy element. And they have resumes cooperation in 1939 under non-agression pact. Bad thing Stalin purged most of his military and military industrial complex 1937-1939 over this feud labeling thousands of able officers and scientists as German and Japanese spies just to come into WWII with earlier 30’s technology and WWI tactics used by incompetent loyalists. I can easily see similarities there especially considering recant Russian military reform and so-calles anti-corruption witch hunting over military budget.

Do you have a link for this?

[JerseyanExile]

I think I know what he’s talking about, but he has it turned the wrong way round when it comes to interwar development of doctrine and equipment - during that period, the Germans were banned from doing quite a few military activities such as developing their armored forces and air force. So, they made co-operative training and R&D sites inside the Soviet Union, as a way to get around the restrictions. If anything, it was the Germans who helped shape the professional Soviet military of the 1930s. In addition, during the 20s and 30s, the Soviets imported entire factories from the West, and set them up under foreign guidance. The Germans were, along with the United States, one of the main contributors the Russians growth as an industrial power - the Minsk Truck Plant and Uralmash heavy industrial plants were built by the Germans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_tank_school

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipetsk_fighter-pilot_school

He is right about about how the Soviets were one the main suppliers Germany had during WW2. Vast amounts of oil, gran, and other resources that the German war machine needed were exported in vast amounts by the Soviets.