>>>>>Of course USSR would/could never have been "conquered". You can occupy Holland or Belgium or maybe even Poland. But there weren't enough Germans in all Germany to occupy even Russia, let alone Ukraine and all to the East, even if they had pulled every soldier from the Western front and occupied Europe.
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>>>>Oh i don't know... British Empire ?
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>>>You mean "rulling" a quarter of the population of the earth from a little island ? ;-)
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>>>Worked in India because of the model of subvert and rule through local proxies. Sure didn't work in Afghanistan. Worked in Canada, Australia, NZ because of common interests, language, lineage and England eventually learning not to push too hard.
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>>>But Russia? Hell, the *Russians* haven't been able to conquer Russia. The Germans had some ready made allies in Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnya and the rest of trans Caucasus and that would have been a bit like the Brits. But the best they could have hoped for was manpower, wheat and oil.
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>>>My god by 1943 the *Italians* wanted to shoot them. The eastern European countries, Ukraine etc got sick of them very quickly.
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>>>German attitudes and racial policies meant unless they could get England as an allie there was nobody they thought were even close to being their equals so if they wanted to rule the world they were going to have to do it with Germans and they were quickly going to run out of Germans.
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>>I am really looking forward to the rest of my online history class. This week: "The Rise of National Industrial States (1830 - 1871)".
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>Mike, i would reccomend a book a read a while ago: The rise and fall of the great powers by paul kenedy. I found it very informative and a great lesson of history.

Thanks for the recommendation, Walter.