I always thought that USSR plan was to push the war, which I supposeRarog wrote:Well, it's exactly THE ISSUE. One can not plan to conquer the entire world after being beaten by a tiny country, unless that one is a complete moronMark V wrote:
The issue was USSR going to attack central Europe is not the topic here.
Well, Stalin wasn't a moron, neither was Mr. V. Suvorov with his Ice-Breaker.
they thought was evident, away from their borders. Use these other
countries as buffer zones, so "no shot would be fired on Russian
territory". Eventually, this didn't seem to work out very good for USSR.
when Germany finally did attack.
I think Stalin also got a lessons in Winter War about exporting
communism. It didn't work out as well as he probably hoped for.
The Terijoki Goverment, which he hoped to install became more of an
embarrasment to Stalin. And Finnish workers did not welcome an
invading army with open arms.
Regards,
-Pete