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He had buried his tomahawk and he was not ready to dig it up. Convinced that he had signed an eternal pact of friendship with Germany, he sucked on the pipe of peace. The generalissimo preferred to trust his political instinct rather than the secret reports piled up on his desk. This was the case with Stalin and his entourage.

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He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day. Soviet agents working in the frontier zone in Poland and Rumania gave detailed reports on the concentration of troops.

On the 10th June the English released similar information. On March 11, 1941, Roosevelt gave the Russian ambassador the plans gathered by American agents for Operation Barbarossa. In contrast to all of its later models, the orignal TSh-4 was was not a headset, simply due to not featuring any kind of electronics (the intercom) built-in, which was due to the fact that. The Soviet intelligence services were not the only ones in possession of this information. Red army tankers from T-34-85 medium tank, wearing the original TSh-4 helmet paired with their standard one-piece black coveralls during World War II. On May 12, Sorge warned Moscow that 150 German divisions were massed along the frontier. In May, through the Soviet military attaché in Vichy, General Susloparov, I sent the proposed plan of attack, and indicated the original date, May 15, then the revised date, and the final date. In February, I sent a detailed dispatch giving the exact number of divisions withdrawn from France and Belgium, and sent to the east. At the beginning of 1941, Schulze-Boysen sent the Centre precise information on the operation being planned massive bombardments of Leningrad, Kiev, and Vyborg the number of divisions involved. Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations. Richard Sorge warned the Centre immediately he forwarded them a copy of the directive. The first sentence of the plan was explicit: 'The German armed forces must be ready before the end of the war against Great Britain to defeat the Soviet Union by means of Blitzkrieg.' On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.

He wrote about this in his autobiography, The Great Game (1977) ▲ Main Article ▲ Primary Sources (1) Leopold Trepper, the head of the Red Orchestra, kept Joseph Stalin and the Red Army informed of the planned German invasion of the Soviet Union.

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