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This tape seems to confirm Victor Suvorov's thesis that Stalin was preparing for massive aggression against Germany and Western Europe. That is the significance of the large number of tanks Hitler is talking about at the start of the tape. Suvorov claims that Stalin's military position was 100% aggressive toward Poland/Germany/Europe. He also claims that if Stalin had attacked Romanian oil (mentioned in the tape), it would have been all over for Germany. Lastly, Suvorov says that Stalin was so easily overwhelmed by Hitler's sudden attack because Stalin's military position was totally aggressive, which is a bad position for defense.
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> The USSR had no interest in Western Europe
Kek. Read Icebreaker
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Stalin was planning to invade July 7 1941, he got pre empted by Hitler who came June 22 as a response to the Soviet buildup of 300 divisions on the border.
The masks that "capitalism" and "communism " were bitter enemies dropped and they all came together to give stalin trucks tanks guns food bullets clothes fuel industrial equipment pesticide even.
Are you really here to spout the most often repeated mainstream nonsense that everyone has heard since they were a child thousands of times?
> and complete surprise and lack of preparation for war on the part of the Soviets in 1941.
False
It was a preemptive war
>Further evidence cited by von Thadden about the German-Russian clash was provided by Andrei Vlassov, a prominent Soviet Russian general who had been captured by the Germans. During a conversation in 1942 with SS general Richard Hildebrandt, he was asked if Stalin had intended to attack Germany, and if so, when. As Hildebrandt later related:
>Vlassov responded by saying that the attack was planned for August-September 1941. The Russians had been preparing the attack since the beginning of the year, which took quite a while because of the poor Russian railroad network. Hitler had sized up the situation entirely correctly, and had struck directly into the Russian buildup. This, said Vlassov, is the reason for the tremendous initial German successes.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v18/v18n3p40_Michaels.html
http://www.amazon.com/Icebreaker-Who-Started-Second-World/dp/0241126223
http://wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/stalwarplans.html