Russia in World War Two

Russia in World War Two

The great war plan, preparations, collapse, and recovery - a revised

view

The history of Russia in World War 2 is still being revised. In the

first decades after World War 2, the historiography of Russia's part

in the war in between 1939 and the end of 1941, was largely based on a

combination of the strictly censored Russian state propaganda's

version and of what was known outside Russia, which was then closed

behind the "Iron Curtain" of the Cold War.

Eventually, two new factors provided new insights and new proofs which

enable a revision that let us get much closer to the truth.

The first factor was the great and laborious work of a few open-minded

2nd generation independent researchers like Viktor Suvorov and Mark

Solonin, which applied analytic approaches to the vast scope of

publicly available Russian wartime and post-war documentation and

literature, detected thousands of small details of information that

slipped over the years through the Soviet censorship, and processed

these into coherent new insights which dramatically changed our

perception of what happened, both before the German invasion

(Suvorov's work), and after it started (Solonin's work).

First and foremost of these researchers was Vladimir Rezun (known by

his pen name Viktor Suvorov), a Russian military intelligence officer

who applied his deep knowledge of intelligence gathering and analysis

methods, and of Russian military doctrines, to Russia's World War 2

military literature, with dramatic results.

The second factor was the partial removal of the deep cover of

censorship from Russian military and s...

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... realized that since they're country is being

massively attacked there's a good chance that they can escape from the

war without being punished by the formidable regime. Given the

possibility that for the first time in their life non-cooperation with

the Communist regime will NOT be severely punished, so many favored

that option, and that's something the Russian censorship could never

admit.

So while in all material aspects Russia was enormously prepared for

war, and could therefore theoretically manage much better than it did,

even under a massive surprise attack, in morale terms, the Russian

people in the front (which rapidly moved East all across the long

front), were generally unwilling to fight for their terrible terror

regime once fear of it was lost since the regime itself was being

attacked and in danger.