SavannahMann
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Serious researchers do not condemn a book they have not read, especially if the book has been published by a respected and established publishing house like the U.S. Naval Institute Press. By the way, here is what the U.S. Naval Institute says about Suvorov's book:
Bestselling author Victor Suvorov probes newly released Soviet documents and reevaluates existing material to analyze Stalin's strategic design to conquer Europe and the reasons behind his controversial support for Nazi Germany. A former Soviet army intelligence officer, the author explains that Stalin's strategy leading up to World War II grew from Vladimir Lenin's belief that if World War I did not ignite the worldwide Communist revolution, then a second world war would be needed to achieve it. Stalin saw Nazi Germany as the power that would fight and weaken capitalist countries so that Soviet armies could then sweep across Europe. Suvorov reveals how Stalin conspired with German leaders to bypass the Versailles Treaty, which forbade German rearmament, and secretly trained German engineers and officers and provided bases and factories for war. He also calls attention to the 1939 nonaggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany that allowed Hitler to proceed with his plans to invade Poland, fomenting war in Europe.
Suvorov debunks the theory that Stalin was duped by Hitler and that the Soviet Union was a victim of Nazi aggression. Instead, he makes the case that Stalin neither feared Hitler nor mistakenly trusted him. Suvorov maintains that after Germany occupied Poland, defeated France, and started to prepare for an invasion of Great Britain, Hitler's intelligence services detected the Soviet Union's preparations for a major war against Germany. This detection, he argues, led to Germany's preemptive war plan and the launch of an invasion of the USSR. Stalin emerges from the pages of this book as a diabolical genius consumed by visions of a worldwide Communist revolution at any cost—a leader who wooed Hitler and Germany in his own effort to conquer the world. In contradicting traditional theories about Soviet planning, the book is certain to provoke debate among historians throughout the world. (The Chief Culprit)
I repeat. Nonsense.
Soviet offensive plans controversy - Wikipedia
First your Hero Suvorov has made no evidence available to anyone else. It is essentially take my word for it. It is contradicted by other evidence.
For example. The extensive preparations Stalin made for war are what forced Germany’s hand. If true. Why was the T-34 tank a surprise to the troops, and the command structure including Hitler? Hitler said if he had known the Soviets had the T-34 he would never have attacked. Hitler blamed the failure of Barbarossa and subsequent attack plans failures on lack of Intelligence. In other words he did not know enough about the plans of the enemy. That is supported by the numerous failures of German Intelligence through the war. Operation Mincemeat where an alcoholic corpse is dressed up as a Royal Marine Commando Who happens to have detailed plans for the next phase of the war? It never occurred to the Nazi’s to wonder if Enigma might be compromised.
Time and time again the Nazi’s racial beliefs clouded their thinking. Anything devised in the mind of a German could never be understood by anyone else.
The German planning for Barbarossa started in the fall of 1940 days after they realized that England would not be invaded.
Hitler outlined his plans to wipe out Russia in Mein Kampf. That was 1925.
Hitler was not the fall guy. He wasn’t duped. He was a bad guy with demonstrably wrong ideals and barbaric intentions. Stalin was not a nice guy. But he did not start the war. That was Germany, Japan, and Italy.