ORIGINAL: Apollo11
Hi all,
ORIGINAL: pauk
greetings....
before few years (6-10 years) i read that Stalin prepared for attack on Germany. But, as we all know, Germans strike before it happend.
This info, journalists wrote, was based on documents found in the russian archives (opened after the fall of communisam), but after that i never heard anything more about those "confidental documents". My guess is that was "standard exclusive story" by journalists.
However, does someone recall this, have additional info?
After the fall of communism / USSR and forming of independent states (Russia, Ukraine) several closely guarded secrets come to the surface:
#1
It was finally officially confirmed that there were secret annexes to Hitler-Stalin 1939 pact that Russia used to occupy eastern part of Poland. In the west this was always known but USSR always denied it.
#2
It was confirmed that Katyin forest massacre was committed by Russians (just as Germans were claiming during WWII but nobody believed them) when Russian forces occupied eastern part of Poland in 1939. This massacre was committed by NKVD by killing the thousands and thousands of Polish officers (in other words beheading the Polish society because officers active and reserve were the educated cream of Polish society).
#3
It was discovered that there really were Russian plans to start war against Germany. The author of plans (not surprisingly) was Zukov. Russians even today claim that those were only "Staff studies that every army in the world does all the time" but, as one of the posters here wrote, the actual way Russian forces were deployed in 1941 suggest otherwise...
Leo "Apollo11"
Regarding #2, the Germans invited neutral officers (Sweden and Portugal?, i forget) to review their forensic work on the site and apparently had excellent evidence agains the Soviets. The Soviets later did their own "forensic examination" of the site (w/o the neutral observers) and, not surprisingly, declared that Germans did it. I think most knowledgeable observers knew who did it, but the US and UK weren't going to upset the allied applecart over something that they couldn't have done anything about.
