The Hostile Relations Between The Soviet Union And Nazi Germany

The relations of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany leading up to the war were very unstable and full of paranoia. The hostile relations between these countries goes back all the way to WW1 when the Bolsheviks overthrew the Czarist Russian government after Vladimir Lenin was sent from exile back to Russia by the Germans. Russia had been involved in the bloody WW1 battlefields and the country had many economic issues. The Bolsheviks were able to gain a foothold and take control of the government. They promised to end the war against Germany, which the people desired. This led to the treaty of Treaty of Breast-Litovsk being put forwarded and the war being ended. The newly created Soviet Union would fall into civil war and bring upon the defeat