In accor­dance with the offi­cial his­tory the Sec­ond World War  (in Rus­sia called ‘the Great Patri­otic War’) was com­menced on the Soviet ter­ri­tory by Ger­many: the treach­er­ous attack on 22 June, 1941when they invaded into the USSR.  This offi­cial ver­sion of the Soviet Gov­ern­ment is writ­ten in every his­tory book.  At the same time there is numer­ous evi­dence of Stalin’s desire to start the war first with the inten­tion sim­i­lar to Hitler’s . And that is why there is the the­ory that Stalin pro­voked Ger­man aggres­sion against the USSR.

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