The Instigation of World War II by Stalin'S Secret Plan To Conquer Europe

Author:Stalin'S Secret Plan To Conquer Europe [Sconosciuto]
Language: ita
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

In 1941, a change of considerable importance took place [in the Red Army]. Soviet troops ceased to concern themselves about how they would spend the following winter. All the troops of the First Strategic Echelon left their dug-outs and partially built barracks and moved directly onto the frontier. (Marshal I. Kh. Bagramyan, VIZH 1976, No. 1, p. 62). The troops in the Second Strategic Echelon who were being moved from the interior of the country did not use the uncompleted barracks and small military centers which the First Echelon had left behind. The arriving troops did not mean to spend the winter in these places, and were in no way preparing themselves for winter. They no longer made dug-outs, they did not build training grounds or firing ranges; they did not even dig trenches. There are many official documents and memoirs by generals and marshals to show that the troops were now quartered only under canvas. … So where did they intend to spend the winter, if not in central and southern Europe? {p. 256-258}.

…let us for a moment envisage a situation in which Hitler did not attack the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, but decided to postpone Operation Barbarossa and capture Gibraltar, for example, instead. What would Stalin have done in that situation? He could not have turned back his massive armies. … It would have taken many months to move the troops back, paralyzed the railways and brought on an economic catastrophe. What would have been the sense of spending six months concentrating troops in secret, and then spending another six months dispersing them? But even if a total dispersal had immediately followed the total concentration, it would have been quite impossible to complete the process before winter set in. Nor could Stalin have left his vast armies to winter in the forests of the frontier area. {p. 262-263}.

There are several more aspects here. We know that Stalin created a great lot of gliders. This burst of glider production has interesting implications. The gliders produced in the spring of 1941 would have to have been used in the summer of that year, or by early autumn at the latest, since it would have been impossible to keep them safe until 1942. All the hangers had long been crammed full of the gliders which had already been produced. It would have been out of the question to keep fields of gliders in the open air for any length of time, exposed to the rains and winds of autumn and to frosts and heavy snowfalls weighing many tons. The mass production of airborne assault transport gliders in 1941 meant that they were intended to be used in mid-1941. If Stalin had intended to throw hundreds of thousands of his paratroopers into Western Europe in 1942, then the mass production of gliders would have been planned for 1942. {p.117-118}. In addition, “In April 1941 the Red Army ordered a massive deployment of artillery pieces and ammunition production to the frontier, and their storage there on the ground in the open.

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