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Originally Posted by Doppleganger That wasn't what I was getting at. It seems the point I was attempting to make has gone straight over your head. 
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I don't need any more sources to support my point of view - the body of evidence on offer is overwhelming. Stalin did virtually nothing when his military intelligence, Richard Sorge and the Lucy Spy Ring all told him about Hitler's attentions to attack. Stalin knew the date and time of attack, he had all the plans of attack and axis of advance for all 3 army groups. He even knew the names of all the German commanders involved down to corps level. Yet he did virtually nothing about it and he nearly paid a fatal price for it. Don't you acknowledge this?! |
Actually you're rehashing propaganda. After doing real research and writing a paper on Sorge's predictions it is clear that he did not predict the exact date or time, that is a falsification that began during Khrushchev's time. Practically no one predicted the exact date, but plenty of agents predicted many different dates, that's called disinformation. In fact, Stalin was smart not to listen to their broad and general outlines of when something would happen. If he had, he would have mobilized the Red Army during the spring of 1941 and given Hitler the out he needed to begin a war. I'd love to hear where you're getting your information about what Stalin knew and didn't know though, your sources are?