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@After_Midnight : "The reason Hitler launched operation Barbarossa was to preemptively strike the masses of forward deployed Red Army units in the USSR's border. This is acknowledge and discussed by historians, it is not 'Nazi propaganda'." The false claim that the Poor Little Third Reich was about to be swallowed up by the Big Bad Soviet Wolf and Had No Choice but to launch Operation Barbarossa is promoted by fake "historian" Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun, a.k.a. "Victor Suvorov". Rezun was born in central Ukraine. He defected to the U.K. on 10 Jun 1978 and may well be on the MI5 payroll -- like conquest, Litvinenko and Skripal. Russia did not plan to invade Germany. If this is what Hitler believed, then he was delusional. Somebody was feeding him lies. I wonder who it could have been. You don't need 169 divisions and 3.8 million men to strike Soviet border patrols "pre-emptively". But at least you admit that Hitler was the invader. That's progress. - - - A few of my sources: "Is there documentary evidence that Stalin intended/prepared to fight Germany after the Nazi-Soviet pact?", Stack Exchange: History, 12 Aug 2017, at https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/39563/is-there-documentary-evidence-that-stalin-intended-prepared-to-fight-germany-aft > Suvorov's thesis that Stalin was preparing for an offensive against Germany has been debunked. Stalin's actions (such as shooting agents who reported threatening German troop movements, as British spies) suggest to me that he did not have plans to attack Germany, nor did he anticipate a German attack. - - "Friday book # 31: Icebreaker", Irrussianality, 12 Aug 2016, at https://irrussianality.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/friday-book-31-icebreaker/ > This week’s book is Victor Suvorov’s controversial Icebreaker, published in 1990. In this Suvorov claimed that Stalin was planning to attack Germany in 1941, and thus that the German attack on the Soviet Union could be seen not as an act of aggression but rather as a pre-emptive strike. .... > Subsequent studies by historians such as Gabriel Gorodetsky, however, have thoroughly debunked Suvorov’s thesis, and I don’t know of any serious historian who still supports it. - - Here's an article that addresses the damage done by Suvorov's disinformation blitz: "On the Edge of the Abyss: Why Stalin Did Not Believe Intelligence Officers in June 1941", Tr by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard, Tvzvezda.ru / Stalker Zone, 03 Nov 2016, at https://www.stalkerzone.org/edge-abyss-stalin-not-believe-intelligence-officers-june-1941/ - - Suvorov is a lousy prophet. In 2016, for example, he predicted that Russia would break up by the end of 2017. "COMMENTARY: Viktor Suvorov – Russia To Face Unanticipated Break-Up Within A Year", Zionist Report, 27 Nov 2016, at https://zionistreport.com/2016/11/commentary-viktor-suvorov-russia-to-face-unanticipated-break-up-within-a-year/