https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Germany_(1939–1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German–Soviet_Commercial_Agreement_(1940)

Worthwile to note that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were longstanding allies before Operation Barbarossa and a critical amount of steel and oil that supplied the Nazi war machine after the allied embargo was supplied by the Soviet union.

Which says nothing of the monumental sacrifice given by Soviet civilians, but let’s separate that from Stalin’s policy, perhaps?

Worthwile to note here that the left of the French revolution, the Jacobins, did develop authoritarianism.

Which should have been a warning sign for all leftists to come, but alas…