Soviet offensive plans controversy
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soviet-offensive-plans-controversy-190-3965047
title:
Soviet offensive plans controversy
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The Soviet offensive plans controversy was a debate among historians in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as to whether Joseph Stalin had planned to launch an attack against Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941. The controversy began with Soviet defector Viktor Suvorov with his 1988 book Icebreaker: Who started the Second World War? In it, he claimed that Stalin used Nazi Germany as a proxy to attack Europe. The thesis by Suvorov that Stalin had planned to attack Nazi Germany in 1941 was reje
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Late-20th-century debate on whether Stalin planned to invade Germany in 1941
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_offensive_plans_controversy
date created:
2009-07-17T16:22:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T15:11:09Z
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