In the USSR, the slogan of the communists was a song that was played all over the country: “Mii na gorye vsem bourzhuyam mirovoy pozhar razduyem!” (To the disaster of all the capitalists, we will start a worldwide catastrophic calamity). Since 1917, the communists hoped to “replace capitalist encirclement with communist encirclement.” During the early 1920s, they underwent enormous efforts to develop a communist coup d’etat in Germany. Lenin said that a revolution in Germany would mean revolution in all Europe. However, this plan did not succeed. The communists then understood that Europe would only be vulnerable to a revolution during war. From that moment onwards, the communists’ mission would be to provoke that war: the Second World War.
The USSR
did not want to start this war by invading. It was much easier to feign
neutrality and then strike while the other countries have exhausted themselves.
For a long time, the Soviet Union strengthened the German socialist party. Then
suddenly, Stalin ordered the German socialists, who controlled 25% of the
votes, to give total support to the Nazis, giving them the majority that they
needed to win. Hitler was perfect for the Soviet Union’s aim and he was
officially proclaimed the “Icebreaker for the World Revolution.” After Hitler’s
seizure of power, everything possible was done by Stalin to ignite conflict
between Germany and the Allies. The culmination of this was the Nazi-Soviet
nonaggression pact of 1939, which gave Hitler the green light to attack the
West. The plan was this: After Hitler destroyed Europe’s armies and
governments, Stalin would invade as a "liberator from the Nazis" and
take control of all of it, including Germany, France, Italy, and Spain.
Stalin’s plot was a masterpiece; even today most people still aren’t aware
about it. However, he failed in his secret attempt because Hitler found out
about his plans and launched a last-resort preventive strike at the USSR in
1941. He destroyed most of the Soviet Union’s offensive capacity, removing the
immediate threat to Europe. Had this action not been taken, the Soviet flag
would have flown in London by the end of 1941.
The proof
for my presumably ludicrous statements can be encountered below. The first
person to research this topic extensively and write many books on it was Viktor
Suvorov, a former Soviet GRU spy. Most of his facts come directly from memoirs
and books by high-ranking Soviet officials (Stalin, Zhukov, Meretskov, etc.),
official Soviet reports, and Soviet state newsjournals. Any factual information
I subsequently state in this essay is from Icebreaker by Viktor Suvorov,
unless otherwise stated.
Starting
in 1939, the largest mobilization of troops in history began in the Soviet
Union, bringing three strategic echelons with 31 massive armies to the western
frontier. The Soviet army consisted of five million men. Six more million would
be drafted in the summer of 1941. “By June 1941, the “neutral” Soviet Union had
assembled more tank divisions than all the other countries of the world put
together…. In June 1941 Hitler threw ten mechanized corps into battle, of which
each, on average, had more than 340 light and medium tanks. By contrast, Stalin
had 29 mechanized corps, each with 1,031 light, medium, and heavy tanks…”
(Daniel Michaels). In 1939, the percent of the Germany economy focused on war
was 9%. In the Soviet Union it was 25%. By 1941, Germany’s percent rose to 19,
while it was 43% in the USSR. By July 1940, 28 armies appeared on the western
border. “Hitler’s military contained 4 blitzkrieg mechanized tank groups. Three
were used in the invasion of France, and four were used in Operation
Barbarossa. Each one usually had between 600 and 1,000 tanks, and on occasions
as many as 1,250 tanks, along with a considerable number of infantry and
artillery.” (Suvorov, p.141-142). The Soviet equivalent of a blitzkrieg tank
group was a shock army. Shock armies had about 1,000 tanks, sometimes much
more. The only other difference is that Hitler had 4 tank groups while Stalin
had sixteen shock armies. All 16 of
the armies located in west Russia were of shock army status. Every one of these
armies, except for the 23rd which was near Finland, was situated
directly on the frontier with Germany and its ally Romania. This was the
largest army ever in all of history.
Why
was there such an enormous buildup of military? According to Western beliefs
(which greatly underestimate the scale of the movement) and communist
propaganda, this was a necessary action taken by Stalin to protect his country
against the aggressive Hitler. Not quite. The purpose of the troops was purely
to attack and invade. Here’s why:
The majority of tanks produced in the Soviet Union were great except
for one thing: It was impossible to use them on Soviet territory. They were
designed to be used on German autobahns and French highways.
At the
beginning of World War II, Stalin had 1,000,000 trained paratroopers. This was
200 times as many paratroopers as the rest of the world combined, including
Germany, which had only 4,000. Paratroopers are useless in a defensive war.
Special
NKVD frontier troops showed surprising skill when attacking the western part of
a frontier bridge. When they had to defend the eastern part, they showed a
surprising lack of training.
A country
concerned with its defense makes a security zone saturated with mines, traps, mined
bridges, partisan detachments, fortification lines, and an absence of roads and
railways. The Soviet Union had all these indispensable defensive obstacles.
With them in place, it would be nearly impossible for any force on earth to
reach Moscow from the west. However, after the outbreak of World War II, the
Soviet Union did a very surprising thing. It completely destroyed its security
zone, destroyed its impassible Stalin Line, removed the mines, disbanded the
partisans, cut the barbed wire on the frontier, and built roads and railways
leading directly to the German border. These were obviously preparations for a
massive Soviet attack on Europe. “It was not, of course, for Hitler’s benefit
that Meretskov, Zhukov, and Beria built roads, [railways and bridges, piled
rails, supplies, airplanes, and ammunition on the border, destroyed the immense
security zone, disbanded the partisan detachments, and removed the impassible
Stalin line.] It was to let the Soviet “liberation” army loose on Europe, with
speed and with nothing in its path, and to keep it supplied in the course of
its surprise offensive. … It would have been impossible for the millions of
troops and tons of supplies to move so quickly from east to west without these
adjustments.” (Suvorov, p. 78,81).
Through
the pact of 1939, the USSR established a common border with Germany. This is
only done when an attack is being planned.
Bridges
over the Dnieper River were removed of mines. The Dnieper Naval Flotilla was
disbanded and the Danube Flotilla was created in its place. Where could the
Danube Flotilla move except up the Danube River into Romania?
The Soviet
Union stockpiled tons of supplies on the border. Boots, airplanes, fuel,
ammunition, and road and rail making equipment were stacked as close to Germany
as possible. These are obviously not defensive measures.
In June
1941, the Black Sea Fleet and the 3rd Airborne Assault Corps
practiced military operations on an offensive theme such as assaulting a enemy
coast.
When
Zhukov reported that the Germans were invading, Stalin, Molotov, and Beria
absolutely refused to believe it. If they did not believe this, then for what
were they preparing themselves?
After the German invasion, the
Soviet army was operating with improvisation. It had no war plans. How could a
country assemble an army for defense without its generals making war plans? And
yet before the war the generals were making war plans at a radical pace. Zhukov
and others were working 15 to 17 hours a day on war plans. The only reason that
these war plans were not used was because they were plans for an offensive war,
not a defensive one.
The most
Soviet armies were formed at the time when Hitler was fighting farthest away
from the USSR.
The 12th
and 18th Armies of the First Strategic Echelon were special mountain armies.
They were placed at a point which was flat and/or hilly. To the west were the
German and Romanian Carpathian Mountains. Its only conceivable function could
be to operate in these mountains. Zhukov commanded that the 12th Army have an
excellent knowledge of the Carpathian passes.
The
commanders and troops from Soviet internal military districts were brought to
the frontier. This is never done in preparation for a defensive war.
The level
of secrecy with which the armies moved to the border was never before attained.
If the Soviet Union was preparing for defense, it would definitely not need
such exceptional-secrecy.
Some
commanders positioned their main headquarters within sight of German frontier
guards. Is this a defensive tactic?
Soviet
commanders carried out lengthy reconnaissance missions in which they studied
German terrain. Demolition specialists studied enemy minefields instead of
laying their own.
The Red
Army had maps of Germany, Romania, and Berlin instead of maps of their own
territory.
Every
Russian soldier had German phrasebooks.
Red Envelopes with military orders
were issued to military commanders. The order to open them never came because
they did not contain any information on what to do if the Nazis invaded.
All this is only a fraction of the
evidence that can be obtained.