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Article: Books: The surprise of Stalin's life Niall Ferguson on why Hitler's offensive in 1941 caught the Soviet Union totally unprepared
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- July 11, 1999
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Grand Delusion:
Stalin and the German
Invasion of Russia
by Gabriel Gorodetsky
Yale, pounds 25, 408 pp
WHEN STALIN was woken at his dacha on the morning of June 22, 1941
and told the news that the Germans had launched a massive offensive
against the Soviet Union, he was "speechless . . . only his heavy
breathing could be heard". When his two commanders met him a couple
of hours later, they found him "very pale . . . sitting at the table
clutching a loaded unlit pipe in both hands". "Bewildered", Stalin
could only suggest that the attack was "a provocation of the German
officers"; "Hitler surely does not know about it."
Historians have long been puzzled by Stalin's complete failure to
grasp ...
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