Military Parade in Moscow
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.
In 1939 the USSR government signed a historical agreement with Germany ('the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact"). This non-aggression pact guaranteed that both parties never make war with each other. Signing this document, the USSR implicitly permitted Germany to commence the war against the West. This would have allowed Stalin to start the emancipation movement of the countries which would have been invaded by Hitler. It was the right moment – Germany, exhausted with its Western campaign, would not have been able to fight in the East (East being the West of the USSR), should the USSR invade the German borders later. By winning the war with Hitler, the USSR would become the main World Saviour and, as per the Lenin’s precept, it may be the start of World Communism Revolution.
What would have happened if the USSR began that war? The war – is the Mother of revolution, and the world war – the mother of World revolution. According to the main revolution philosopher Friedrich Engels, the World War with the victory of Communists would result in the ‘total exhaustion and creation of conditions for the ultimate victory of the labour force’. Fortunately, this guy died before the Second World War and, unfortunately, Lenin - the follower of the idea of World Revolution gained an access to power in Russia and created the monster Stalin.
Joachim von Ribbentrop third from right watches his Soviet counterpart Vyacheslav Molotov seated sign the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact of non-aggression on Aug. 23 1939. Josef Stalin (AP Photo/File)
In 1939 a German colonel Heinz Guderian paid a visit to the Soviet Locomotive Factory which also produced tanks. The number of tanks produced daily was 22(!). That was a time when Soviets were not participated in any war. Just six years prior to that, Germany which was not at war, did not have any tanks at all. Also when Germany commenced the war they had only 3200 tanks – the same amount which could have been produced by the Soviet locomotive factory for less than half a year! And now a little bit about those tanks. Similar to the Soviet cars, copied from the American templates, that tank's prototype was first created in the USA (where it was never put into mass production) and transferred to the USSR with the utterance of forged documents where it was listed as the agricultural tractor.
Later, this ‘tractor’ was copied and then assembled in tremendous numbers under the brand HST – High-Speed Tank. First HST could gather speed of 100 km/h. Even at present this speed for the tank is considered to be enormous. The shape of the tank’s body was simple and rational. None of the tanks in the World had such an armour shape. The best tank of the Second World War, T34, was the direct descendant of the HST. The principles used in this tank was later copied by the German ‘Panther’ and then spread in the world. In 1936 these tanks could move on the bottom of the deep creek - almost underwater. In 1938 these tanks were assembled with the diesel engines – unprecedented feature for that time. Finally, these tanks were equipped with the very powerful weapon. Those tanks had only one disadvantage – they were useless on the territory of the Soviet Union as they were not adapted for the impassability of roads rather than to good roads of Europe...
BT-7 - High Speed Tank
Another instance of Soviet pre-war weapon was the Soviet pursuit plane which was the first one in the world equipped with rockets. By that time the Soviet engineers already created the unique plane IL-2 with the armour body – the real "tank" able to fly, with the super power equipment including 8 rocket missiles. Did the Soviet aviation have the supremacy in the air then? No.
Mostly Russian pilots including the pilots of pursuit planes were not trained to conduct the fight in the air, rather they could strike the targets on the ground. According to the code of the military aviation they were directed to conduct one superior offensive war destroying the enemy planes on the airfields and then holding the supremacy in the air. In 1929 the magazine ‘War and Revolution’ in the article ‘The beginning of the War’ concluded: ‘It is very advantageous to seize the initiative and start the war first, making a surprise attack’. Later, this conclusion was cited in all the Soviet aviation codes.
IL-2 - Flying Tank
One more proof to the alternative version of the offensive war intentions were the howitzer artillery groups created in the USSR as a part of the Red Army military force. If the Sovet government prepared to the defensive actions then they would have produced cannons as they are initially designed for defence – as grazing fire forces the enemy to stop. In an opposite case, however, howitzer is better as it has a high-angle fire trajectory and proved to be the best to smoke out the defender from the trench. Should the Soviets predict the defensive actions they would definitely have built cannons rather than howitzers.
The debates over the different versions of the reasons of Germany attacking the USSR have started in early 90s. These debates are concentrated on Stalin’s obscure intentions when he maimed the entire country while creating the unique system of governance. What was his ultimate purpose?
There are only two possible outcomes – the first one is complimentary for the USSR while the second one is deteriorative. Unfortunately for the Soviet adherents there is no proof that Stalin prepared for the defensive war and this fact puts the Stalin’s regime on the same line with the Hitler Nazi one. Sometimes it seems to be better not to look back in history where the old myths let the Stalin’s supporters live in a fool’s paradise.
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