  eaker_(non-fiction_book) > suvorov argued that joseph stalin planned a conquest of europe for many years, and was preparing to launch a surprise attack on nazi germany at the end of summer of 1941 to begin that plan. he says that operation barbarossa was a pre-emptive strike by adolf hitler, a claim which the nazi leader himself had made at the time > stalin's war: a new history of world war ii > a prize-winning historian reveals how stalinnot hitlerwas the animating force of world war ii in this major new history. the two books i know of that blames stalin for barbarossa, not hitler, is it true, who knows.
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