[katana]

Thanks, I'll have to look that up. I don't recall any mention of Russian attack plans or preparations in 1941 in what is the best biography of Stalin I've read, Stalin: The Court of the Red Czar by Montefiore. But I read it years ago and may simply have forgotten.

[jospehm20]

The book is called Icebreaker by Viktor Suvorov. He uses mostly the speeches and writings of people involved as he claims the official Soviet sources and archives are sanitized of all evidence that Stalin planned to attack Hitler and take over Europe. Interestingly, he claims that Stalin considered Soviet involvement in WW2 a failure as they ended up with just a few countries instead of the whole of Europe as he had planned.