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Soviet plans to respond to German military preparations
- Authors: Myakota V.N.1, Kudryashov S.V.2
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Affiliations:
- Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense
- Research Center for the History of the Great Patriotic War at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 1(120) (2025)
- Pages: 13-25
- Section: AT VICTORY’S HEADQUARTERS
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2587-6090/article/view/293967
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22204/2587-8956-2025-120-01-13-25
- ID: 293967
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Abstract
The present paper analyses the Soviet war planning prior to the onset of the Great Patriotic War. The focus is placed on the plans of the General Staff of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in the spring of 1941. The authors of the study analyse drafts of plans that were never implemented by the Soviet government. The study's conclusion asserts that military leadership possessed no intention of engaging in “an offensive” against Germany.
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Vadim N. Myakota
Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense
Author for correspondence.
Email: centervoviriran@mail.ru
Head of the 15th Department
Russian FederationSergey V. Kudryashov
Research Center for the History of the Great Patriotic War at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: kudryashov.iri.ran@yandex.ru
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher
Russian FederationReferences
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