> problem is the soviet attack on germany was most likely scheduled to happen only two weeks after the germans started barbarossa. it was scheduled for never, it was never going to happen.  > on january 17, 1941, seven days after the germansoviet border and commercial agreement, molotov asked german officials whether the parties could then work out an agreement for entry to the axis pact.[64][90] molotov expressed astonishment at the absence of any answer to the soviets' november 25 offer to join the pact[90] and never received an answer.[90] on march 1, 1941, bulgaria joined the axis, which further unsettled stalin after germany had continued to ignore stalin's november 25, 1940, axis entry proposal.[91] after six months of preparations, germany invaded the soviet union on 22 june 1941, which ended any hope for the proposed alliance. according to stalins daughter, svetlana alliluyeva she "remembered her father saying after [the war]: together with the germans we would have been invincible".[96]
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