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Old October 21st, 2007, 02:09 AM
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Default Re: Russia and Germany sign a peace treaty in March 42?

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Originally Posted by tikilal View Post
This may be another ignorant question but are there written records the show Russian intent to conquer europe?
I've not seen any. With all the historical material published on Stalin in the last two decades, and the opening of the old Soviet archives, one would think the 'Plan To Conquor The World' would have been extensively published and picked apart by historians.

in retrospect Stalin missed his best chance in 1937. The industrial development plans were coming well along; The RKKA was large, reasonably trained, was well along in equiping with the new (for 37) tanks, had the only corps size mechanized units existant in any army, and had completed testing and intial training in a new operationl doctrine to take advantage of massed mechanized corps and armys.

In 1937 Poland had the largest army facing the USSR & it was out numbered and out gunned with no motorized or large armored formations. Germany had barely twenty combat ready divsions and its armored units were half formed and ill equipped. France's large army was configured for defense only and incapable of forming a mobile army to aid the Poles or anyone else in less than 4-5 months.

Instead of taking advantage of all this Stalin begains his "Purge" destroying the military leaders from top to bottom, castrating the party intellegenstia, and terrorising the new generation of educated and skilled technicians who had belived in the new socalist state.

By the time the purges tapered off in 1940 Stalins USSR was nearly incapable of defending itself.
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