On 5/9/2021 6:18 PM, Michael Meeropol wrote:
...but also something that gave Soviet Russia two years more to prepare to the war, so enabling its Victory against nazifascism.
And yet, eighty years ago last month, Stalin was explicitly warned about Hitler's inclement invasion.
(By coincidence, my first cousin twice removed, Harro Schulze-Boysen of the Red Orchestra, was caught giving the USSR that heads up and many other messages, and executed the subsequent year.)
Stalin just ignored that warning. (More here <https://swab.zlibcdn.com/dtoken/ba84e38e932131cda355aedb8749326f>.)
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