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Originally Posted by Doppleganger
IMO the outcome of the Winter War made very little difference to Hitler's plans for the USSR. Hitler was committed to move east no matter what. After June 1940 it was the only practical direction for him to move in. What it probably did though was strengthen Hitler's conviction that a quick, lightning war against Russia would prevail. It was only in 1942 that Hitler developed any grudging respect for the 'Bolsheviks'. |
Indeed. Hitler believed slavic people's to be subhuman and these racist thoughts did not begin or end at the winter war. It was written long before WWII was even a dream in Mein Kempf.