Viktor Suvorov . Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War II

17 years since the appearence of his famous Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?, Suvorov published his second book in English Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War II about Stalin’s alleged plans to conquer Europe and establish communist rule on the continent. “Icebreaker”, and several follow-up volumes (Day M. When did WWII begin?, Cleansing. Why Stalin Decapitated his Army?, The Last Republic. Why Soviet Union lost WWII, The Suicide. Why Hitler attacked Soviet Union?, Taking my Words Back, Shadow of Victory, The Sacred Business – published in Russian), ignited a firestorm of controversy both in German and Russian historical science, and two last decades were spent in major feud between adepts of traditional history of the Second World War and revisionists. Fortunately, “Chief Culprit” is not a second volume of “Icebreaker”, it’s an updated version, where old claims are revisited, and many more new claims added, so it’s not necessary to read Icebreaker first. To the delight of his readers, this time Suvorov included the list of the sources he is using, which makes easier to follow his logic and check foundations of his claims.

No doubt, Viktor Suvorov is a very gifted, imaginative writer, and his new book can be  recommended to anybody, who is interested in conspiracy theories about the origins of the Second World War and communist attempts to establish world domination. Author describes the very consistent, meticulously thought-out Soviet strategy to include Europe in the communist world order, first using Hitler’s Germany as a tool to crush European independent states. According to Suvorov, this attempt would have all chances to succeed, if not Hitler, who, increasingly alarmed by Stalin’s acquisitions in Eastern Europe (Baltic States, parts of Romania and Finland), started German large-scale offensive on June 22 1941, which caught Stalin’s armies in the middle of their own offensive deployment, disrupting Soviet plans of conquest and, eventually, world domination.
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Unfortunately, Suvorov is not a historian, as he was quick to admit himself, and any of his books, Chief Culprit included, can’t be categorized as a historical research and belongs more to the realm of iconoclastic speculations. If an academically trained researcher would prefer to collect all necessary sources, and only then move to the more or less balanced and well-supported conclusions, Suvorov, on the contrary, starts from his hypothesis, and then proceeds to the facts, supporting his views, without mentioning everything that isn’t.

There is no piece of evidence to support Suvorov’s signature claim that “Stalin fathered Nazi Germany and put Hitler in power”. Brief period of military cooperation between Soviet Union and Weimar Republic in 1920s was fading even before Hitler became a Reichchencellor in 1933 and soon was cancelled altogether. And indeed, from Stalin’s point of view, miniscule army of Weimar Germany, without Panzer Force, Air Force and Navy would be much easier target than Hitler’s Wehrmacht in 1941.

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