I dont have the books anymore but i will see if i can find them by reference.
Bullet point on the theory;
Stalin suddenly moved over a million troops west of the urals in 41, after 2 years of the pact.
They deployed on the border with their supplies depos and air strips extreme forward - as in, as if they were attacking to maximize air cover and minimize supply chain depth. If they were retreating, their air bases and supplies would be captured immediately. Defensive Air strips deploy to cover their defensive front, not project radius hundreds of miles into enemy territory.
They built no defensive fortifications. They often deployed in secret, forests, etc. no big bases, barracks, etc. they could not have remained in such a deployment for long.
They raised polish brigades typically used as in finland to try to 'justify' their 'liberation of poland from the germans'
Soviet political doctrine was explicitly expansionist and their military doctrine explicitly offensive.
Oral consensus on stalins unreleased speeches in early 41 leans towards this theory
Stalin gathered up literally thousands of western gauge locomotives and train cars in 1940. Those can only be used attacking outside the soviet union.
The soviet - german phrase books captured from soviet officers in barbarossa were mostly phrases indicative of an invading army - questions you would ask if you were in unfamiliar enemy territory. my old neighbor had one.
This theory turns the 'stalin was STUNNINGLY stupid in ignoring war warnings' postulation into the more credible 'stalin's feigned ignorance was a ruse to cover for his planned preemptive strike' and he just mis-timed it.
This theory explains how millions of men, almost the entire air force, and all supplies were encircled in the first month of the war.
Really, other than as a result of allied propaganda, i have never comprehended how this theory is not more widely accepted. It seems the only credible theory upon deep analysis.
Unless you think the soviet military was utterly incompetent, utterly irrational, utterly illogical, and deliberately self destructive. You dont park millions of men in the woods in tents on the polish-ukrainian border for no reason.
http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1278/did-stalin-plan-to-attack-hitler-in-1941-the-historiographical-controversy-surrounding-the-origins-of-the-nazi-soviet-war
https://wearswar.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/stalins-preparations-for-an-offensive-war-in-the-summer-of-1941-to-make-europe-a-soviet-communist-continent/
https://codoh.com/library/document/examining-stalins-1941-plan-to-attack-germany/en/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_offensive_plans_controversy
The soviet era records on this issue are still not declassified. However, i assume that most records were purged.
Bullet point on the theory;
Stalin suddenly moved over a million troops west of the urals in 41, after 2 years of the pact.
They deployed on the border with their supplies depos and air strips extreme forward - as in, as if they were attacking to maximize air cover and minimize supply chain depth. If they were retreating, their air bases and supplies would be captured immediately. Defensive Air strips deploy to cover their defensive front, not project radius hundreds of miles into enemy territory.
They built no defensive fortifications. They often deployed in secret, forests, etc. no big bases, barracks, etc. they could not have remained in such a deployment for long.
They raised polish brigades typically used as in finland to try to 'justify' their 'liberation of poland from the germans'
Soviet political doctrine was explicitly expansionist and their military doctrine explicitly offensive.
Oral consensus on stalins unreleased speeches in early 41 leans towards this theory
Stalin gathered up literally thousands of western gauge locomotives and train cars in 1940. Those can only be used attacking outside the soviet union.
The soviet - german phrase books captured from soviet officers in barbarossa were mostly phrases indicative of an invading army - questions you would ask if you were in unfamiliar enemy territory. my old neighbor had one.
This theory turns the 'stalin was STUNNINGLY stupid in ignoring war warnings' postulation into the more credible 'stalin's feigned ignorance was a ruse to cover for his planned preemptive strike' and he just mis-timed it.
This theory explains how millions of men, almost the entire air force, and all supplies were encircled in the first month of the war.
Really, other than as a result of allied propaganda, i have never comprehended how this theory is not more widely accepted. It seems the only credible theory upon deep analysis.
Unless you think the soviet military was utterly incompetent, utterly irrational, utterly illogical, and deliberately self destructive. You dont park millions of men in the woods in tents on the polish-ukrainian border for no reason.
http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1278/did-stalin-plan-to-attack-hitler-in-1941-the-historiographical-controversy-surrounding-the-origins-of-the-nazi-soviet-war
https://wearswar.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/stalins-preparations-for-an-offensive-war-in-the-summer-of-1941-to-make-europe-a-soviet-communist-continent/
https://codoh.com/library/document/examining-stalins-1941-plan-to-attack-germany/en/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_offensive_plans_controversy
The soviet era records on this issue are still not declassified. However, i assume that most records were purged.