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Originally Posted by Doppleganger Thank you. What was the full subject of your paper and is it online anywhere? I suspect not or you probably would already have linked to it.
If I accept that Sorge was not as accurate as earlier publications suggested, that still leaves Stalin's own military intelligence and, more importantly, the Lucy Spy Ring. Even if Stalin distrusted the information, which he reportedly did from the latter source (at least in 1941), he still should have made some adjustments to a defensive posture along his western border. I see no excuse for Stalin to be caught so off guard as he was when the Germans invaded. |
This is pointless, you have not read the works I listed above nor do you care to. I'm not going to be correcting you at every turn. So, for the last time; the information being received was contradictory, Stalin did not know who to believe, the information he looked at many times said Germany wouldn't attack, at least not that summer. Secondly, the Red Army was growing, forces were on the move from the interior, airfields were ordered to be camouflaged, etc. There was only so much one could do without knowing exactly when Hitler would attack and believing it. You see 'no excuse' because you haven't read all the reports that were coming in.