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Originally Posted by STEED
The documentary series based on Laurence Rees book...World War Two Behind Closed Doors - Stalin, The Nazis And The West had a scene with Stalin and his two top Generals showing plans of a attack on the Germans and Stalin got angry at them and came close to saying one of his Generals would have been shot for that idea.
How serious the plans were are not very clear and Stalin had no intentions what so ever.
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Plans, generally speaking, are very frail evidence for or against anything. Let me give you a ridiculous example: Finland planned attacking Soviet Union before the Winter war, so actually the Soviet aggression in 1939 was justified.
Preposterous? Such argument has been made. And the proof was indeed found: the Finnish military did have an offensive plan directed into the Soviet territory.
Point being? The same that was made when countering this argument in historical discourse: that a military that doesn't make plans is a completely useless military. I bet even today, somewhere deep in the archives of our army, there is a strategic plan to invade Estonia, Sweden, Russia and heck, the Vatican for all I care. And also a defensive plan in case any of those happen to utilize their offensive plans against us (which, I'm sure, they too have). It's what militaries do.