Churchill spread false information, and Stalin was unprepared for the Soviet-German war.

1941at dawn on June 22, Germany tore up the Soviet-German non-aggression treaty and suddenly attacked the Soviet Union, and the Soviet-German war broke out in an all-round way. For a long time, due to the limitation of archives, the stories and details about the outbreak of the Soviet-German war have been shrouded in many mysteries. On the eve of the 6 1 anniversary of the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, a military historian named Navarrozov published an article entitled "Hitler almost won because of Churchill: a history that is still news today", pointing out that the most direct reason for the outbreak of the Soviet-German War was that Churchill deliberately spread false information and tactics to Stalin and Hitler in order to bring trouble to the East and alienate the Soviet-German relationship.

After Germany raided Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany. 1in the spring of 940, Germany began to invade western European countries on a large scale, and the situation became more and more severe for Britain: France was quickly defeated by the German blitzkrieg, the Soviet Union actually became Germany's ally, and Germany began to shell Britain ... It is also expected that Hitler and Stalin, who jointly carved up Poland, will probably continue to carve up the world. Stalin's actions seem to show this, for example, providing Hitler with pig iron, cotton, grain, manganese, sulfur and other raw materials needed for the war. In addition, if Stalin allowed the Germans to attack Britain's rear base India freely through the Soviet border, the consequences would be unimaginable. The British have a more terrible worry, that is, the Soviet Union joined the German camp to jointly deal with Britain.

In this extremely difficult situation, the implementation of the strategy of alienating the Soviet Union from Germany to the east became a vital event for Churchill in England at that time.

1940 12 18 in may, Hitler began to formulate the Barbarossa plan to attack the Soviet union and occupy the European part of the Soviet union. However, Churchill said in the memory of World War II that until June 194 1, 12, that is, 10 days before Germany launched an attack on the Soviet Union, he did not have any exact information about Hitler's attempt to attack the Soviet Union. After collecting all kinds of information about British officials' opinions on Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, Meschi, the Soviet ambassador to Britain, said in a telegram to Moscow on June 2 194 1 the day before Hitler's attack: "I still think that the possibility of a German attack on the Soviet Union is extremely small. 」

1941April19, Churchill instructed the British Ambassador to Moscow Kripps to hand over a British memorandum to Vischinski, a member of the Soviet People's Foreign Affairs Committee. In this memo, Churchill warned Stalin that "if the Anglo-German war lasts too long, Britain will be tempted to reach a peace agreement with Germany to end the war". The purpose of this special memorandum of Britain is clear: to convince Stalin that if he is not a fool, then he should attack Germany without hesitation now. At that time, the Germans were using their main force against Britain. Churchill's warning means that if Germany and Britain sign a peace agreement, Germany can concentrate all its forces against the Soviet Union.

In fact, the so-called Anglo-German peace agreement under discussion is nothing but false information deliberately spread by Churchill to protect himself. This kind of cover-up had a completely different effect for Stalin and Hitler.

In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union first disclosed the losses of its troops in the Great Patriotic War: 27 million. This shows Stalin's military incompetence, especially compared with the German army's loss of 2.85 million. If Stalin really knew that Hitler was going to attack the Soviet Union, he would probably take the initiative to attack and gain the advantage of surprise attack, but if Stalin believed that Hitler would not attack the Soviet Union, then Stalin would never attack Germany. Later historical development proved that Stalin did not believe that Hitler would attack the Soviet Union. So what role did these false information play?

Churchill considered himself an expert in espionage. Long before he became British Prime Minister, he established his own secret intelligence agency. His subordinates kept providing him with all kinds of anecdotes about "Germanic rearmament", which he deliberately leaked to the outside world as evidence that the Germans were preparing to attack Britain. After becoming the British Prime Minister, the British secret intelligence agency was completely dominated by him, but the spy veteran Churchill seemed to turn a blind eye to the Soviet agents hidden in his intelligence agency. You know, in Britain, even in the British Secret Service, Soviet agents can be described as gangs (known as "Cambridge Gang"). Many historical facts have proved that Soviet agents in Britain reported to Stalin the false information provided by Churchill and its true intentions through their direct superiors.

When Stalin received the memo of1941April19, he naturally saw that Churchill was spreading false news. If the Anglo-German peace talks have been going on, why did Churchill tell him this? If the Soviet Union knew about the Anglo-German peace talks, it would certainly make preparations and try its best to thwart this attempt by Germany and Britain through official or secret channels.

Except the publications of the Soviet Union before 1950s, all the books about the history of World War II described how Churchill himself warned Stalin that Hitler would launch a surprise attack on the Soviet Union on June 22nd. 194 1, but Stalin ignored this warning and almost lost the whole plot of the war. In fact, at some point (maybe 12 June), the development of things made Churchill begin to believe that Hitler really intended to attack the Soviet Union. In this way, he no longer needs to spread false information. Stalin should be one of his potential allies. At this point, Churchill began to sincerely remind Stalin. However, Stalin naturally mistaken Churchill's sincere warning for another trick of Churchill to spread false information.

1941may 12, the agent sorge hiding in Britain reported Hitler's plan to attack the Soviet union to Moscow. The report specifically lists the date of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, the number of German infantry divisions and the main direction of attack. However, all the reported information was suspected by Stalin to be Churchill's false information. Therefore, Stalin's response must be the following two choices: first, tell all his subordinates that all information about Hitler's attempt to attack the Soviet Union is false. Second, prove to Hitler that Stalin is not going to attack Germany, that is, let Hitler never believe Churchill's false information.

What effect did Churchill's false information have on Hitler? Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union was the result of geopolitical theory, and the conquest of Russia was the key to fascist Germany's attempt to achieve world domination. At the same time, attacking the Soviet Union is a large-scale ground war, which is Hitler's favorite and best way of fighting. Fear that the Soviet Union might attack Germany is also a reason. On the eve of attacking the Soviet Union, Hitler said in a letter to Mussolini that worrying about the Soviet Union attacking Germany was his first reason.

194 1 On the eve of the German attack on the Soviet Union at 4 am on June 22, 2000, Stalin and his senior generals were ready to issue an order to order the border guards to prepare for the war, but Stalin interjected: "The time for issuing this order is not yet mature." German agents immediately reported to Hitler that the Soviet border guards were mobilizing for war, which coincided with Churchill's false information. How could Hitler not believe it? The belligerent Hitler would never sit idly by and watch the Soviet attack, thinking that only preemptive action could prevent this from happening.

1941On June 22nd, Stalin was woken up and his subordinates reported to him by telephone that German bombers were bombing "our city". Stalin is almost unbelievable. But he gradually understood what was happening: Hitler's information about his attempt to attack the Soviet Union was completely different from all the false information reported by Churchill!

Because the Soviet army was completely unprepared for the war, Hitler completely defeated some Soviet troops deployed in European territory. In this way, a piece of false information paralyzed Stalin and accelerated Hitler's war.