The question is amusing, but the add of Stalin asking it makes it seem like they think it’s a gotcha.
Agreed, it’s not like the USSR was blindsided - they knew exactly what was coming.
They were definitely blindsided about the timeline though. But to their credit, they would not have expected Hitler to be that stupid and start a two front war.
I would tell anyone who thinks the USSR was blindsided to listen to the song If Tomorrow Brings War
Thanks for the earworm LOL
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Classic trot nonsense. Relying on second-hand sources, in this case a British historian who specializes in German history and is explicitly an expert only on ww2 German history, then presenting unverified and united hear-say as the truth.
What the actual fuck is this bunch of ahistorical nonsense? Oh, wait, it’s a Trot publication!
Everything in this text is wrong. It replicates the fascist lies about the POUM being crushed by the soviets in the may days (see my latest c/effort post showing the latest historiographical research on the topic, including Spanish sources), and the fucking Stalin “withdrawing for weeks during the invasion” is simply a vile lie made up by Khruschyov that’s been dispelled since the archives were opened and Stalin’s schedule of 18 fucking hours of meetings a day from the start of the war was revealed. Delete this shit
Lib learning how power works.
