You status quo guys are ridiculous, attempting to turn
Stalin into a naive victim, and hero of the era. Stalin was the most ruthless, calculating world leader of the 20th century. The 'experts' who've written most of the history books expect people to believe that Uncle Joe, the paranoid maniac who murdered his closest and most loyal underlings out of fear that they would conspire against him, was blindly trusting of Hitler, and surprised when Germany invaded! But you'll believe anything, no matter how ridiculous, as long as it fits the status quo narrative for s too late.
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aylor and David Hoggan, Suvorov points out that Hitler neither wanted nor planned for a European-wide conflict in 1939. It was the British and French declarations of war against Germany that transformed a local conflict between Germany and Poland into a European-wide one."[/I]
Historian Details Stalin's Two-Year 'Mobilization' Plan for European Conquest (review)
As usual from you, another load of crap.
First and foremost, as stated before, the Red Army was not even remotely prepared for offensive operations
“Among the noted critics of Suvorov's work are Israeli historian Gabriel Gorodetsky, American military historian David Glantz,[34] and Russian military historians Makhmut Gareev, Lev Bezymensky, and Dmitri Volkogonov. Many other western scholars, such as Teddy J. Uldricks,[35] Derek Watson,[36] Hugh Ragsdale,[37] Roger Reese,[38] Stephen Blank,[39] and Robin Edmonds,[40] agree that the Suvorov's major weakness is "that the author does not reveal his sources" (Ingmar Oldberg[41]) and rely on circumstantial evidence.[42]. Historian Cynthia A. Roberts is even more categorical, claiming that Suvorov's writings have "virtually no evidentiary base".[43]
Suvorov's most controversial thesis is that the Red Army made extensive preparations for an offensive war in Europe, but it was totally unprepared for defensive operations on its own territory.[4] Thereby Suvorov essentially reiterates the argument put forward by Adolf Hitler in 1941.[4] According to Jonathan Haslam, Suvorov's claim that "Germany frustrated Stalin's war"[21] "would be comical were it not taken so seriously".[44]
One of Suvorov's arguments is that certain types of weapons were mostly suited for offensive warfare and that the Red Army had large numbers of such weapons. For example, he pointed out that the Soviet Union was outfitting large numbers of paratroopers — preparing to field entire parachute armies, in fact — and states that paratroopers are only suitable for offensive action, which the Soviet military doctrine of the time recognized. Suvorov's critics say that Soviet paratroopers were poorly trained and armed.[45] In like fashion, Suvorov cites the development of the KT/Antonov A-40 "flying tank" as evidence of Stalin's aggressive plans, while his critics say that development of this tank was started only in December 1941.[46]
David M. Glantz disputes the argument that the Red Army was deployed in an offensive stance in 1941. According to Glantz, the Red Army was only in a state of partial mobilization in July 1941, from which neither effective defensive or offensive actions could be offered without considerable delay.[47]
Antony Beevor writes that "the Red Army was simply not in a state to launch a major offensive in the summer of 1941, and in any case Hitler's decision to invade had been made considerably earlier."[48] However, he also notes that "it cannot be excluded that Stalin... may have been considering a preventive attack in the winter of 1941 or more probably in 1942..."[48]”
Soviet offensive plans controversy - Wikipedia
Secondly, your attempt to blame Britain and France for “transforming it into a continent-wide conflict” is equally laughable, given that by 1939 Hitler had invaded and carved up numerous neighboring countries, and there was exactly zero reason for the allies to just sit around and allow him to continue to do so.
Not only that, but throwing around numbers about the Red Army’s “build up” ignores the fact that the most likely cause for that build up was the
Europe wide war your idol started. It was blatantly obvious after Poland that an army with no tank divisions, for instance, would not do very well when push came shove.
Oh look, the SS fanboy wants to call other people stupid. Too funny:lamo
But all’s well that ends well—millions of genocidal thugs ended up in shallow graves and your idol had to blow his brains