Stalin always expected Hitler to attack...he just figured he'd be bogged down in the West, he couldn't see France falling in six weeks....He knew he couldn't have the Red Army ready until 1943, so he was just trying to stall for time.
“Stalin always expected Hitler to attack...he just figured he’d be bogged down in the West, he couldn’t see France falling in six weeks....He knew he couldn’t have the Red Army ready until 1943, so he was just trying to stall for time.”
Completely false. The Red army was offensively postured at the border when the Germans invaded in June 1941. The Germans missed getting attacked themselves by only a couple of months. There are many accounts of German soldiers and commanders being baffled by the soviet troop dispositions with them being offensively postured as the only explanation. If you look at the way the soviet forces were arrayed right before the German attack you would come to the same conclusion.