Did Stalin Start World War 2? The Secret Plans to Conquer Europe (2009)
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The Soviet Union began World War II with a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, signed on 23 August 1939. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591148065/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1591148065&linkCode=as2&tag=ub066-20&linkId=117ec22e751fecb594e97dcead8621df In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included a secret protocol that divided territories of Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland into German and Soviet "spheres of influence", anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. Stalin and Hitler later traded proposals for a Soviet entry into the Axis Pact. Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, and Joseph Stalin ordered his own invasion of Poland on 17 September. Part of southeastern (Karelia) and Salla region in Finland were annexed by the Soviet Union after the Winter War. This was followed by Soviet annexations of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Romania (Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertza region). It was only in 1989 that the Soviet Union admitted the existence of the secret protocol of the Nazi-Soviet pact regarding the planned divisions of these territories. In June 1941, Hitler launched an invasion of the Soviet Union, prior to which Stalin had ignored reports of a German invasion. Stalin was confident that the total Allied war machine would eventually stop Germany,[3] and the Soviets stopped the Wehrmacht some 30 kilometers from Moscow. Over the next four years, the Soviet Union repulsed German offensives, such as at the Battle of Stalingrad and Battle of Kursk, and pressed forward to victory in large Soviet offensives such as the Vistula-Oder Offensive. Stalin began to listen to his generals more after Kursk. The bulk of Soviet fighting took place on the Eastern Front—including a continued war with Finland—but it also invaded Iran (August 1941) in cooperation with the British and late in the war attacked Japan (August 1945). Stalin met with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference and began to discuss a two-front war against Germany and future of Europe after the war. Berlin finally fell in April 1945, but Stalin was never fully convinced his nemesis Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. Fending off the German invasion and pressing to victory in the East required a tremendous sacrifice by the Soviet Union, which suffered the highest military casualties in the war, losing approximately 20 million men. Stalin became personally involved with questionable tactics employed during the war, including the Katyn massacre, Order No. 270, Order No. 227 and NKVD prisoner massacres. Controversy also surrounds rapes and looting in Soviet-held territory, along with large numbers of deaths of POWs held by the Soviets, and the Soviets' abusive treatment of their own soldiers who had been held in German POW camps. Viktor Suvorov suggested that Stalin had made aggressive preparations beginning in the late 1930s and was preparing to invade Germany in the summer 1941. He believes that Hitler forestalled Stalin and the German invasion was in essence a pre-emptive strike, precisely as Hitler claimed. This theory was supported by Igor Bunich, Joachim Hoffmann, Mikhail Meltyukhov (see Stalin's Missed Chance) and Edvard Radzinsky (see Stalin: The First In-Depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives). Other historians, especially Gabriel Gorodetsky and David Glantz, reject this thesis.[54] General Fedor von Boch's diary says that the Abwehr fully expected a Soviet attack against German forces in Poland no later than 1942. In the initial hours after the German attack began, Stalin hesitated, wanting to ensure that the German attack was sanctioned by Hitler, rather than the unauthorized action of a rogue general. Accounts by Nikita Khrushchev and Anastas Mikoyan claim that, after the invasion, Stalin retreated to his dacha in despair for several days and did not participate in leadership decisions. But, some documentary evidence of orders given by Stalin contradicts these accounts, leading historians such as Roberts to speculate that Khrushchev's account is inaccurate. Stalin soon quickly made himself a Marshal of the Soviet Union, then country's highest military rank and Supreme Commander in Chief of the Soviet Armed Forces aside from being Premier and General-Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union that made him the leader of the nation, as well as the People's Commissar for Defense, which is equivalent to the U.S. Secretary of War in the at that time and the U.K. Minister of Defense and formed the State Defense Committee to coordinate military operations with himself also as Chairman. He chaired the Stavka, the highest defense organization of the country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_World_War_II
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Uncle Sam and Uncle Joe Stalin done whooped hitlers booty for starting that war. You conspiracy 'tards can bullshit all night and day but dats de TRUTH !!!! DIG???? DUG !!!!!! nuff said.
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Well what kind of a fucking leader is that? 20 million of his own people died during WW2
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raytheon, boeing, etc...
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lets put cards on the table, russia would have defeated germany in the East, America wouldnt have been able to do shit without england. Shit got real.Nowadays, war is won by air. the US owns that until we no longer own corps
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it's a cute story, but this guy exhales sorrowfully abundantly, forgets english conveniently, and just raises alarms in my brain
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Stalin kicked Hitler's ass into hell.
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Viktor Suvorov is fucking moron
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Aяe you Amеяicans яeally so srupid?
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jews started ww2
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I love the way Viktor Suvorov talks. It's so informal and friendly.
"Look vat!"
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If his assumptions are correct, can he tell us why Stalin told his generals that 'Hitler's not stupid, he won't attack Russia because he doesn't want a war on two fronts'. And why did Stalin retreat to his dacha after the German attack and only emerge when his political comrades (who Stalin thought had come to kill him) came to ask for his leadership. And why did Stalin offer Hitler (who took it as a sign of military weakness) the Ukraine sometime after the German attack! These events (which are well documented) do not sound like the actions of a man who planned, expected or wanted a war with Germany.
He reminds me of Boris Berezovsky, perhaps he has a book to sell? -
Just finished reading Suworows book, a real eye opener. In German:
https://ia802608.us.archive.org/33/items/34458777ViktorSuworowStalinsVerhinderterErstschlag/34458777-Viktor-Suworow-Stalins-Verhinderter-Erstschlag.pdf
It is true that soviets suffered heavy losses as they never were ready for a defensive war on their own territory, because they were ready for an attack war in Europe to spread comunism there. -
this is the first time I have seen a so called academic arguing against the non existent "Stalin was a good guy" camp.
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Stalin didn't have the ability to start a world war. The Soviet Union was just getting finished with industrialization. Do I think Stalin attempted to conquer Europe: YES. But how he planned to do it was allowing the West to annihilate Nazi's by 90% and then take part in breaking the pact once Germany was weak. Then he would try any sneaky tactics like he tried when Germany was first split.
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nazi fucking GERMany started the war. ... historical fact
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'An idiot stays an idiot for a long time'
Well, you failed the 'Hitler-Test', idiot. -
crackpots
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The ironic thing here is Woodrow Wilson was the President that sold out Americans to Samuel Untemeyer (the same Sam Untemeyer whos park in Yonkers is where the Son of Sam would meet...) and Cheif Justice Brandais, also Elihu Root, Bernard Baruch. These Jewish men more than anyone, involved the United States in WW1 and WW2 not for us or our freedoms but to expand the Communist goal of creating a UN, an EU, but first they created the Red Army, paid Trotsky to go back from Brooklyn NY to Russia to start a Communist revolution. Wall ST tycoons helped pay too like Averell Harriman. The enablers did it for the quick stock cash so it wasnt just the Jews, but they were there. Also, world wide Judea declared war against Germany in 1933, so who started the war first? Known fact Churchill was a servant of the Rothschilds and their goals. Bottom line, Christian Russia, the protector of the Holy land, and Christian Germany were destroyed by the aggressions of the United States Communists.
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Stalin was Spy , Hitler too
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Hitler started WW2 when he attacked the Allies (Poland),
off course this decsion was made a whole lot easier after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
But frankly the extreme peace terns off WW1, 100% decided by the Western Allies was the cause of WW2. It was only a question off when that whould be challenged.
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