To AndyW: He..Thats changed my views on Yelnia operation,excepting one thing. Arn't German forces were suffered an ammonition and fuel crisis, and they were forced to dig in when they captured this Yelnia? You saied that Yelnia was a sailent, that mean that Germans were on march, and were able to made this sailent, and that means that they wasted a lot of ammo and fuel, soldiers were tired. Thats why, I guess, Germans dig into soil,they have no opportunity to go any further.
You are asking for a source of my statement that Stalin planned to attack Germany in 1941? And do you know Russian language that good mein freund? [img]smile.gif[/img] Anywhay, I doubt that anyone will find any Stalins word's like :"I am going to strike Germany" in difference from Hitler, Stalin have not told to Anyone about his plans. But there a lot of facts, which can tell you about this.
Here some links,where you can find those facts:
http://militera.lib.ru/research/meltyukhov/index.html
http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov1/index.html
http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov5/index.html
http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov7/index.html