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To: Robert DeLong
Perhaps we should credit Hitler himself. If he hadn't attacked Russia, Russia would have remained out of the war, yet still supporting Germany.

Maybe, but highly unlikely. I have read, and it seemed plausible and authoritative, that Stalin intended to attack Germany when the time was right. He was building up military capacity as fast as he could.

Hitler beat him to the punch.

90 posted on 12/09/2018 9:19:22 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain
Maybe, but highly unlikely.

I offered that up sardonically. 8>)

There may be some truth to that theory put forth by Vladimir Rezun, who was a former officer of the Soviet military intelligence. He defected to the UK in 1978, and in his 1987 book titled: Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War made the claim that Stalin had amassed well-organized and mobile forces along the German/Russian border with plans to attack to attack on July 6th, 1941.

That was less than 1 month after joining the Allied forces in agreement that included the U.S. who was supposedly neutral. So who was Russia really setting up to attack? They had not 1 but 2 different pacts with Germany. The Treaty of Berlin (German-Soviet Neutrality and Nonaggression Pact) 1926, and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939.

Was this what caused Hitler to attack Russia? Could very well be. War often is a web of intrigue and misdirection constantly being invoked as a part of the strategy being employed.

94 posted on 12/09/2018 9:54:42 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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