![]() The Nazis wanted to annex the plains of western Russian and Ukraine, populating the land with Germans, and also taking hold of Ukraine’s vast crops of wheat, plus the great oil supplies of the Caucuses, to sustain its overall war effort. Ripping up the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression accord between Berlin and Moscow, he planned in a rapid campaign aiming to repeat the Blitzkrieg in France, but on a much larger scale. ![]() In the spring of 1941, Hitler drew his attention to the invasion of the Soviet Union. ![]() After two equally-turbulent centuries, Ukraine again found itself under attack by a great foreign power during Germany’s Barbarossa Campaign of the Second World War.
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