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| Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II (Blue Jacket Bks) | 
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Sales Rank: 101212
Category: Book
Author: Viktor Suvorov
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Studio: Naval Institute Press
Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press
Label: Naval Institute Press
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.3 x 1
ISBN: 1591148383
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5310947
EAN: 9781591148388
ASIN: 1591148383
Publication Date: November 14, 2008
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Bestselling author Victor Suvorov probes newly released Soviet documents and reevaluates existing material to analyze Stalin's strategic design to conquer Europe and the reasons behind his controversial support for Nazi Germany. A former Soviet army intelligence officer, the author explains that Stalin's strategy leading up to World War II grew from Vladimir Lenin's belief that if World War I did not ignite the worldwide Communist revolution, then a second world war would be needed to achieve it. Stalin saw Nazi Germany as the power that would fight and weaken capitalist countries so that Soviet armies could then sweep across Europe. Suvorov reveals how Stalin conspired with German leaders to bypass the Versailles Treaty, which forbade German rearmament, and secretly trained German engineers and officers and provided bases and factories for war. He also calls attention to the 1939 nonaggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany that allowed Hitler to proceed with his plans to invade Poland, fomenting war in Europe.Suvorov debunks the theory that Stalin was duped by Hitler and that the Soviet Union was a victim of Nazi aggression. Instead, he makes the case that Stalin neither feared Hitler nor mistakenly trusted him. Suvorov maintains that after Germany occupied Poland, defeated France, and started to prepare for an invasion of Great Britain, Hitler's intelligence services detected the Soviet Union's preparations for a major war against Germany. This detection, he argues, led to Germany's preemptive war plan and the launch of an invasion of the USSR. Stalin emerges from the pages of this book as a diabolical genius consumed by visions of a worldwide Communist revolution at any cost--a leader who wooed Hitler and Germany in his own effort to conquer the world. In contradicting traditional theories about Soviet planning, the book is certain to provoke debate among historians throughout the world.
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The Great Conspiracy December 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The core of Suvorov's argument is that there was a giant Communist conspiracy in Europe in the 1930s and early 40s to enable the Soviet Union to smash its way into the West and fulfil its objective of world revolution. This book goes much further than 'Icebreaker' to explain Stalin's behaviour towards Hitler in the period leading up to the start of the Russo-German war in June 1941. Stalin studied Nazi ideology and Hitler's book 'Mein Kampf' in considerable detail. He always knew Hitler would attack him, so he set out to prepare the Soviet Union for war - not just any war, but a total, global war. The only thing that Stalin was not expecting was a German attack in 1941; he believed Hitler would not attack while the UK was still in the war. But Stalin's foresight ensured that even after suffering huge defeats in the Western USSR, he could continue the war perfectly well, in the knowledge that most of the heavy production factories were well established in the Urals.
For Stalin, Germany was the gateway to the West. He needed to smash it in order to spread his ideology to Western Europe and beyond. After reading this book it becomes pretty clear that Hitler not only had no choice but to invade the USSR, but that his failure to defeat Britain in 1940 guaranteed his defeat.
I read "Icebreaker" December 4, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read "Icebreaker: Who really started WW2". I believe that V.S. thesis makes sense of a lot of data leading up to the war. One thing that never made sense were deployments of Soviet forces in the days leading up to the war. VS makes sense of these deployments. Get this book and read it and keep an open mind!
Kudos to Suvorov November 23, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Viktor Suvorov in his book Ice Breaker and his new work The Chief Culprit gives the real history behind World War II in Europe. He moves the whole question beyond the wooden typical explanation of the Germano-Soviet conflict into a titanic conflict for the survival of Europe against massive odds.
Joseph Stalin brutalized the Russian people to produce the largest military machine the world has ever seen for one purpose - World Revolution. In the book Hitler's Stooge, Soviet figures are revealed that show Soviet Communists were responsible for the deaths of 132 million people of the Soviet Union from 1917-1989. This was the human cost of the Soviet build up.
The typical history is that Russia was backward, their equipment poor, and the army badly trained. Suvorov goes into excruciating detail about the high quality and astronomical quantity of Soviet weaponry. And, of course, of Stalin's long term plan to invade and conquer Europe in the summer of 1941 - so that Europeans could also enjoy the wonderful benefits of the Gulag.
The only problem with the book is that the print is quite small, and may be a problem for some people. It should have been a larger size for easier readability.
It is hoped that the success of this book will encourage the author to have his other works upon the subject translated into English to further flesh out the history and understanding of Stalin's plan.
This is history at its best. That the world dodged the bullet of World Revolution by less than 2 weeks in 1941 is a revelation deserving of our attention. This is a definite "must read" for everyone interested in the background of World War II, and of Stalin and his dream.
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