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From the book "Stalin" the seminal work of Historian Domenico Losurdo
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I'm currently reading Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend and these quotes are both referenced there as well. So satisfying to see the malding of Hitler and Goebbels once they realize they are absolutely fucked.
Interestingly, the British intelligence was way off too when it came to intelligence about the capabilities of the Soviets. Clearly nothing has changed as it sounds like today
When Stalin offered to provide the ground force for an invasion of Nazi Germany, if the UK would give air support - pre Molotov-Ribbentrop pact - the reason the UK refused is supposedly because their assessment of Soviet military and industry was that they would be steamrolled by the Germans in such an action. Which to be clear isn’t true, given that the Soviet military was designed for offensive warfare (one of the reasons they didn’t perform very well at the start of Barbarossa) and the Nazi’s military was far weaker at this point, when they were still in the process of rearmament, compared to what it would eventually come to be.
Also the Soviets had just trounced Japan at Khalkhin Gol. Even Churchill was frequently calling the British mindset stupid and outright lies.