Both USSR and Nazi Germany were the ones who started WWII by invading Poland, and both of them wanted to conquer the world. That's why they were "buddies" and because both of them were socialistic states.
Stalin was preparing to attack Germany in 1941, so he gathered lots of troops and technique at the western borders of the USSR, but Hitler attacked first. Stalin didn't expected it.

www.ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p501a_Weber.html
www.ihr.org/jhr/v18/v18n3p40_Michaels.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_offensive_plans_controversy
www.oocities.org/rf_mikael/rezun.html

That's links with info for you to read.

And if you want my personal point of view on this situation, then here's what I've got:
I'm Ukrainian, and I have relatives who live in western Ukraine. In that place where the Soviet-Nazi border was situated.
From their words, in 1941 in this region appeared enormous amount of Red Army troops. They were not building defensive structures, but what they did is demining the borderline, building airfields, gathering tanks, and etc. No one knew what's going on, and even soldiers themselves were saying that they were just "ordered" to do this.
When the 3rd Reich unexpectedly attacked, they easily destroyed soviet troops, which were basically defenseless. Plus I need to mention that lots of soldiers were surrendering to Germans.
There are multiple reasons for this:
they were afraid of repeating the scenario of Finnish war in 1939;
they were oppressed Ukrainians, Belorussians, and others, who were forced to serve;
they were pro-imperialistic Russian nationalists, who hated Soviet Union;
and of course those, who simply hated Stalin.

fuck yeah Salamanders, i do feel though that if they GK's were made public, especially their gene seed, it could do a lot of good

Theyre not bikinis. Your boobs will bounce out of a bikini if you run in one. Their clothes are performance tights they dont move. And youre swimming forwards, the only time youre at risk of slipping out of your top is if the water force is upwards not downwards

So phelps is number one because

1/23=People per medal =0.04347826086957

It wouldn't be a nightmare moving them, remember, before 1916 (Phosphorus rounds become widely used) Zeppelins outmatched planes in every way (Could fly higher, didn't burst easily, the planes sucked anyway), and were used to transport supplies/bomb runs, etc. There's even a very cool story where one Zeppelin went from Germany all the way through Africa on one straight run. And they did good in Africa with Vorbeck until 1916 also. While they didn't have nearly as many as say France (who drew a ton from Africa), or England (who, despite massive resources in Africa, went with India and the Middle East, half due to prejudice, half due to logistics), they had some.