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Operation Barbarossa Was A Preventive Attack

posted 10 years ago by bloody-3
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Soviet communist propaganda states that the nazi-soviet war started when the "peace loving and neutral USSR was suddenly and treacherously attacked by the German Wehrmacht". This is parroted by the establishment media worldwide even though it is false. Hitler attacked the Soviet Union to ward off a planned soviet strike. Stalin was getting ready to invade Germany but was beaten to the punch by Operation Barbarossa. Most of the information about this comes from Russian historians and researchers such as Viktor Suvorov, Igor Bunich and Mark Solonin who have had access to soviet era archives since the end of the cold war. Therefore the claim that it comes from neo nazi sources is incorrect.
Just look at the facts. Before the nazi-soviet war even started the "peace loving" and "neutral" USSR had invaded Poland and Finland in 1939, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania in 1940 and even after the start of hostilities with the Axis invaded Iran in August 1941. Poland had a non aggression pact with the Soviet Union but this was violated by the soviets when they invaded Poland on September 17 1939. Proof that non aggression pacts meant nothing to Stalin. See the following thread -
Operation Barbarossa Was A Preventive Attack
http://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7999

[–] chrissso 8 years ago

For Germany to attack Russia was a huge gamble ... so big a gamble that I have wondered and researched why they would take such a risk. The best answer was what you mention above ... to beat the Soviets to the punch. But you should also mention that Hitler planned to subjugate all Slavs and Stalin knew this as well. Simply put war between the two was inevitable and it did not matter who threw the first punch.

[–] bloody-3 8 years ago

From a tactical point of view it did matter who invaded first. The main source of German oil was from Ploesti in Romania. If the Soviets struck first and took the Ploesti oil fields the German war machine would have been badly affected. Remember the Soviets had already invaded and taken over the Romanian provinces of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in 1940. If they struck first it would have been a catastrophe for the Germans. That is why Hitler struck first. Especially when you consider that Germany was still fighting the forces of the British Empire. It needed all the oil it could get.
https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7999
Stalin was doing a good job of subjugating Slavs by himself. He had killed millions of his own citizens most of them Slavs -
www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4656-holodomor-the-secret-holocaust-in-ukraine
And surely you would know that many Russians and other Slavs were in the gulag slave labor camps? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has written all about this -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
Stalin also murdered Slav prisoners of war such as the Poles at Katyn -
www.katyn.org.au