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This seems to clash with the export of the revolution to other countrys during the cold war. Even in the early years , when stalin was still alive. Its also har
by LifeLiverTransp 8y ago
This seems to clash with the export of the revolution to other countrys during the cold war. Even in the early years , when stalin was still alive. Its also hard to imagine, that any dictator willingly would hold back- after he already coluded with another dictator to share the spoils of war (poland).
- jcranmer 8y agoI don't think any historian disputes that the USSR was planning to go to war against Germany eventually. The dispute is that the USSR was planning to go to war in late 1941/early 1942.
- arethuza 8y agoAlso militaries plan for lots of scenarios to be prepared it doesn't mean someone actually has any intention of using those plans - e.g. War Plan Red for the USA vs British Empire in the 1930s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red
- the_af 8y agoWhy does it clash? After WWII and the start of the Cold War, the world stage had radically changed. Some world powers had been diminished while others were ascendant, and plans were redrawn. The specific claim that's likely false is that the Soviet Union, as early as 1941, planned to conquer Europe (as part of some bid to implement "world communism") and specifically attack Germany, and that Hitler's Barbarossa was some sort of "preemptive/defensive" strike. The first goes against Stalin's philosophy at the time, the latter goes against what we know about Red Army readiness and also what we know about Hitler's racial ideology.