Yes
Josef Stalin, the dictator of the Communist government of the USSR, Soviet Republic was the person who allied with the Allies after Hitler broke an agreement to not attack Russia.
1,143,500 Soviets were in the Battle of Stalingrad after the Soviet counter attack.
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Hideki Tojo
June 22,1941
So both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia would have time to build of significant military forces to attack and defend/counter-attack. (Respectively)
Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union was called Operation Barbarossa
The Eastern side.
A
it was the code word for the German attack on the soviet union....................
It didn't. Unless you count the Soviet counter-attack against Nazi Germany in 1942-45.
Operation Barbarossa was the German attack plan for the attack on the Soviet Union.