Operation Barbarossa Revisionism

Operation Barbarossa (OB) was the Nazi invasion of the USSR. OB revisionism takes many forms, the most outrageous of which is the Nazi line that OB was a pre-emptive strike because the USSR was getting ready to attack all of Europe! The Nazis were trying to save the world from Communism! This is clearly completely insane, but German nationalists, pro-Nazis, Nazis, Holocaust Deniers, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites (in practical terms, the same thing!) love to rant on about it. I don’t know one political scientist who takes it seriously. Much other OB revisionism has come out of the West, generally from the CIA and MI5 and allied intelligence services during the anti-Communist Cold War. That the USSR caused 8 Some pigs actually tally up the 27 million as more of countless murders committed by Stalin. The gall! This sort of BS is common on the Far Right in the West. A few of these folks even have university degrees, but that doesn’t mean anyone takes them seriously. Milder forms are taken by the Time Magazine crowd, still Cold Warriors and cheerleaders for US imperialism. This holds that Stalin was a crappy general and military who nearly lost the war due to his ineptness, and that he obtusely and idiotically refused to listen to his own intelligence reports warning of an upcoming OB. This nearly cost him Moscow – yes, the Nazis almost overran the capital of the USSR early on. The truth as usual is much more complicated. There were 80 reports of imminent invasion of the USSR by Germany over 8 months – one every three days. Many of these reports were being fed to the USSR from US and British intelligence (!), who, believe it or not, were eager to see the USSR and the Nazis go at it for a variety of reasons. In part they hoped that the Nazis would kick the USSR’s butt and destroy it, but they also hoped that the Nazis would be weakened in the process. Both the USSR and Germany were seen as enemies of the US and the UK, and the West wanted to see the two destroy each other. Stalin did consider that the invasion was happening when it did, and Molotov, the foreign minister, took appropriate action right away. It is very important to note the reasons for Stalin’s caution – Stalin did not want to start the war for no reason, and it had almost started many times in the immediate past. Tragic and horrible as it is, the Holodomor due to Ukrainian and Soviet mass collectivization and the purges of 1937-38 helped the USSR win the war. Never had any society in the history of mankind accomplished so much in so little time as the USSR did in the 1930’s. So much for “Communism doesn’t work.” From a backwards peasant nation, the USSR was built up into a major world-class industrial power. A piss-poor military was built into one of the most powerful armies on Earth. This could not have happened without the mass collectivization of the early 1930’s, which enabled the countryside to produce enough food to feed the rapidly growing urban working class needed for mass industrialization. The purges, horrible as they were (1 million were killed, not 10 million or 30 million or however many) were also effective. By the time of the invasion, there were almost no high-level traitors left in the USSR, and there had been quite a few in 1936. In the 1930’s, there was a huge conspiracy in the upper echelons of the USSR involving Trotskyites. The Trots knew even back then that Hitler was dead set on conquering the USSR and the Trots had made a deal with the Germans to conduct a coup during the invasion to unseat the Stalinists and hand the country over to the Germans. In return, the Trotskyites would get to rule the rump Soviet puppet state and would hand over the Ukraine, White Russia and Western Russia to the Germans. What a bunch of traitors! People wonder why some of us hate Trotskyites so much. The Trots were so nuts that they were ready to hand over the USSR to the Nazis due to their psychotic hatred of Stalin. During WW2, Trotsky argued that Communists should be “neutral” during the war. He said that the Western capitalists were just as bad as the Nazis. That was before his most excellent murder. Speaking of which, never was an icepick put to better use! As part of the milder OB revisionism, we have the line that “Stalin was unprepared for OB.” Hell. Stalin used the Good overview here.

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9 thoughts on “Operation Barbarossa Revisionism”

  1. “Another part of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Revisionism is the new rightwing line that ‘Communism and Nazism were/are the same thing.'”
    Sovietism/Stalinism and Nazism/Hitlerism clearly weren’t “the same thing,” but they were strikingly similar in MANY respects and in some ways are a mirror image of one another; this is not a “fanatical” or misguided viewpoint but has been written about by many mainstream scholars, including: http://www.amazon.com/Faces-Janus-Marxism-Fascism-Twentieth/dp/0300106025/ref=ed_oe_p/182-0493232-8150254

  2. I don’t know enough about this period. I left a comment at http://americangoy.blogspot.com/2008/01/ww2-operation-barbarossa-1941-real.html
    I think American goy must be a white nationalist.
    I guess there are white nationalists on the Democrat left as well as on the Republican Right.
    Despite his choice of title, he’s opposed to anti-semitism and progressively critical of Israel.
    Paul said…
    http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/operation-barbarossa-revisionism/
    “There’s a much better account of the event above, by a fellow American blogger. Your account is distorted by anti-Communism, common enough in the US, but factually it produces gross distortions of perspective. The preponderant Soviet role in defeating fascism is just wiped out of history. Read Michael Parenti’s “Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism” and get a more balanced view of Communism, not the one you learned in school, college, university and through the media.”

  3. I don’t think American Goy is a White nationalist. I think he’s just an anti-Communist. I figured that anti-Communists would take up the banner of Operation Barbarossa revisionism at some point or other.

  4. No.
    Stalin was getting ready to invade Germany, after the communists helped Hitler re-arm and conquer Europe.
    Hitler prevented him from pulling this off.
    Yes, I do subscribe to Suvorov’s (Rezun’s) theorem.

  5. You really are off your rocker. Every statement is purely insane.
    (1) The Soviet Union was going to attack Europe in 1941, as proven by Viktor Suvorov;
    (2) You seriously believe Stalin’s purge trials – more proof that you are nuts;
    (3) You persist in undercounting victims of Soviet terror;
    (4) You keep claiming that communism improved life in the USSr when in fact it reversed the very substantial progress Russia had been making pre-WW1.
    Why don’t you get “Winter In Moscow” by Malcolm Muggeridge and read it? You might even recognize yourself among the starry eyed western well-wishers.

    1. Suvorov is widely regarded as a lunatic.
      The “undercountings” are based on Soviet records. Turns out all that 20 million to 160 million dead was just CIA and Nazi lies after all. There is a big debate about those statistics now and it’s not all sorted out, but it’s not a crazy position at all to say that 2.5 million died under Stalin.
      The facts are that the death rate dropped by 70% under Stalin. Under the wonderful Czarist system you love so much, people only lived to be 35 years old. Life was short, nasty and brutish indeed. There was little schooling, little food, poor shelter, no transportation, little infrastructure, no developed economy, and little medical care.
      The peasants were barely better off than under feudalism. Stalin built that country from a third world rathole and turned it into one of the world’s major superpowers. As chroniclers of the time noted, “Never had so much development occurred in so short a time.”

  6. “Turns out all that 20 million to 160 million dead was just CIA and Nazi lies after all. ”
    Uhhh…
    Might I suggest reading Robert Conquest Harvest of Sorrow…

  7. If Hitler had really wanted to win World War II, and destroy the Soviet Union, then obviously he should have waited, consolidated his power over Europe, and built super weapons capable of giving his armies the destructive power to actually overcome the hordes of Soviets they would eventually be overran by. The Soviet revenge against Germany in post WWII East Germany included years of rapine, murder, and revenge against the Nazi, and other civilians “liberated” from Nazi rule. If not for the threat of war with the West, The Soviet destruction of Eastern Europe would have been ever nastier. Don’t glamorize the Soviet war against Nazi Germany as some kind if noble crusade. Both sides engaged in the open murder and destruction of anyone or anything that got in the way of their wars for vengeance and conquest. We both know the victors write the history. Thankfully Hitler was a tweaking drug crazed madman throughout most of the war, so the Nazis really had no chance of ever defeating the Soviets. Hitler was a terrible general. Read Earl Zeimke’s “From Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East,” for a well sourced and detailed expansion of my little summary.

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