Stalin and the Great Patriotic War Martirosyan Arsen Benikovich

Myth No. 16. Stalin did not prepare for war with Nazi Germany.

One of the stupidest myths in all anti-Stalinism. N.S. was put into propaganda circulation. Khrushchev back at the 20th Congress of the CPSU with the support of a number of high-ranking military leaders of that time, including G.K. Zhukova. It has been in operation for more than half a century. It has turned into its opposite: now everyone is trying to accuse Stalin of preparing to attack Germany! But what really happened?

Stalin began preparations for war at the very end of 1925. Yes, yes, at the very end of 1925. When the “benefactors” in the West released the “spirit of war”, that is, when, under pressure from Great Britain, the entire continental Western European trash in October 1925 signed the so-called Locarno Agreements, which were, in fact, the prototype Munich agreement with Hitler model 1938. Because, according to intelligence reports, he was well aware that the Locarno Agreements were based on the British concept of the “Russian threat”, with which at that time London diligently frightened the Western and Eastern Europe. One of the first steps towards preparing for the coming war was the resolution “On active intelligence" in 1925. It provided for the advance recruitment and introduction of agents to the most important military and military-industrial facilities of the main opponents of the USSR, the timely identification of attack plans, the preparation of large-scale sabotage measures, etc. However, despite the exceptional importance of intensifying intelligence for the timely identification of plans for an attack on the USSR, this was not the main thing in Stalin’s plans for preparing for war.

The main thing was industrialization, collectivization and cultural revolution, the grandiose plans of which Stalin set for the country. That's what was really the most important thing. Because it’s not armies that fight, it’s economies that fight. What could the Soviet Union oppose to the industrial West in the mid-20s? Checkers of Voroshilov and Budyonny?! Or Maxim machine guns? At that time, the Soviet Union in all respects lagged behind not only the West, but even Poland, which already had, albeit poorly, its own tank and aircraft manufacturing. And the coming war, and this was already clear to the whole world, would certainly become a war of engines.

As a matter of fact, the difficulties that the Soviet Union had to endure during the years especially of the first five-year plan were associated with the total preparation of the USSR for the coming war. Because for this it was necessary strong economy, strong industry, especially heavy industry, strong agriculture, qualified personnel of engineers, technicians, and workers. In the West, they also understood this very well - that’s why they constantly put a spoke in the wheels, using the internal anti-Stalinist opposition, which was only busy with disrupting the pace of fundamental socialist transformations.

In response to these attempts, on February 4, 1931, Stalin bluntly stated: “To slow down the pace means to fall behind. And the backward ones are beaten... We are 50-100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do this, or we will be crushed! And today these words of his are more than relevant...

All three pre-war five-year plans were aimed at creating a reliable defense potential:

The first five-year plan (1929-1932) - construction of the foundations of heavy industry, new industries, creation of the basis of the military-industrial complex, as well as the Armed Forces of the USSR themselves;

The Second Five-Year Plan (1933-1937) - the development of such industrial and military-industrial, as well as military potential, which would ensure opposition to one or two of the largest militarily and industrially developed capitalist states in Europe or Asia;

Third Five-Year Plan (1938-1942) - further development such industrial and military-industrial, as well as military potential, which would guarantee the country's security from an attack by a coalition of leading capitalist states. Including through the creation of duplicate production facilities outside the Urals. Due to the outbreak of the war, the five-year plan was not fulfilled. Nevertheless, the created industrial and military-industrial potentials provided the Soviet Union with a victorious confrontation in that terrible war against Nazi Germany, which by military force and with the connivance of the Western powers was able to consolidate the military and economic potentials of almost all of Europe.

Assessing decades later the results of that difficult and extremely hard work of Stalin and the Soviet people in economic development country, modern public figure Yu. Belov rightly pointed out: “It was precisely in front of the real threat of a military attack on the USSR that Stalin deliberately went for an even more accelerated pace of industrialization than the five-year plans assumed. He also went for an accelerated pace of collectivization, rightly fearing the rampant petty-proprietary (petty-bourgeois) element while maintaining numerous peasant farms. He transferred industrialization to the rails of a mobilization economy - the war was at the doorstep. Over the years, just over 10 years, the USSR under Stalin went through the path of industrialization, which took the West a hundred years or more. Socialist industrialization has become a guarantee Great Victory. We saved not only ourselves, but all of humanity from the plague of fascism, which is written on the tablets of world history.”

Despite the absolute obviousness of the facts of history, even in such a generalized presentation, many historians and publicists deliberately distort the truth. They slander and slander Stalin. Meanwhile, here is a completely unique fact. In 1939 “he carried out a secret operation - even the Ministry of Finance did not know about it - to purchase strategic raw materials from the West, which the USSR did not possess at that time. These raw materials satisfied the needs of the USSR throughout the four years of the war. by 70 percent." That is, in essence, he almost accurately calculated even the duration of the coming war if he purchased a supply of such raw materials for more than 3.5 years in advance! Citing this fact in the first lines of a collection of unique documents from personal archive Stalin called "Forbidden Stalin" its compiler, FSB reserve colonel V.M. Soima concludes with obvious bitterness: “But in people’s minds sits Khrushchev’s formula about Stalin’s unpreparedness for war.” It’s true, he’s sitting, but it would be even more accurate to say this: a formula forcibly imposed by Khrushchev and his henchmen (as well as their heirs) according to anti-Stalinist propaganda. However, here's what's typical. The slander against Stalin within the framework of an absurd version that has degenerated in contrast to the main myth is excellent proof that in reality Stalin did not lose sight of the task of preparing the country for war for a second. Here is one of the most typical examples of this slander, which in fact refutes the myth started by Khrushchev.

On the eve of the next anniversary of the tragic date of June 22, some professor at the Academy of Military Sciences, a reserve colonel, a candidate of military sciences, “made happy” the already long-suffering domestic historical science with an absurd conclusion. It turned out that the transfer of strategic reserves of equipment, weapons, ammunition, food, fuels and lubricants, fodder, uniforms and the like from the regions of the Volga region and the Urals, which began in the fall of 1939, to the rear of the First Strategic Echelon of the Western Military Districts of the USSR was nothing more than “the most significant , a convincing and irrefutable fact of preparation for war on foreign territory,” that is, for an aggressive war! But Stalin had no such plans.

And how did the “professor” manage not to realize the unprecedented importance in military affairs of the factor of the vast expanses of the USSR (Russia), which is why any, especially massive transportation over distances of over a thousand kilometers (or even on a smaller “shoulder”) turns into a problem , often in a serious way? After all, such a huge theater of military operations as the European part of the USSR cannot be equipped overnight and cannot be provided with everything necessary for successful defense in a modern war at that time. After all, this is 1,800,000 sq. km - the 4500-kilometer length of the western land borders of the USSR, multiplied by the 400-kilometer depth of the strategically necessary defense for the USSR in its European part!

Thank God thrice that Stalin was not a “professor at the Academy of Military Sciences.” Knowing full well what unimaginable chaos reigned in the transportation of troops, equipment and ammunition in the tsarist army in the initial period of the First World War, and resuscitation of it was not at all part of his plans, but even more fully understanding that in the conditions of the outbreak of war, especially in the “era engines,” fully providing the active army with everything necessary will be extremely difficult, especially due to the actions of enemy aviation, the attacks of which will primarily be directed precisely at the railways. Stalin began the advance transfer of strategic reserves to the rear of the future theater of military operations! Because he was well aware that without full-fledged rear areas it was impossible to create a powerful barrier along the borders in the west, especially new ones, and in the near, and not in the immediate rear!

And the “professor of the Academy of Military Sciences” is trying to convince us with the following arguments of “Stalin’s guilt.” It’s right that he’s trying, because instead of his “most weighty, convincing and irrefutable facts of preparation for a war on foreign territory,” that is, for an aggressive, offensive war, he perfectly proved the opposite. That, for example, Stalin’s adoption of a number of measures was both timely and adequate to the degree of threat. Among these the “professor” included:

The “Professor” believes that this is a fact of preparation for aggression. He has no idea that Hitler introduced such a law back in mid-March 1935, and France, by the way, even managed to get ahead of him, Hitler, on this issue, and the same England, by the way, introduced conscription on April 27, 1939 G.! Moreover. He, obviously, was not at all aware that the threat of a military clash with Germany had grown by orders of magnitude by the time this law was adopted. But most of all, the “professor” was bypassed by the simple thought that Joseph Vissarionovich first thought about what to feed, what to dress and what to arm the conscripts with, and only then, if, of course, the calculations proved this, he drafted into the army exactly as many as According to calculations, the USSR could feed, clothe and arm.

2. The “professor” was also outraged by the adoption of resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars No. 1355-279ss from September 2, 1939 on the approval of the plan for the reorganization of the ground forces for 1939-1940! It turns out that this, according to his “professor’s concept,” is also a fact of preparation for aggression. But he is precisely because he is a “professor of the Academy of Military Sciences” because a priori he does not understand what the wise ace of the General Staff’s work, the true brain of the “brain of the army” Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov, understood even then. That the system of 7,000-strong rifle divisions that prevailed during the time of Tukhachevsky - the basis of the Ground Forces of the Red Army - clearly no longer corresponded to either defensive or offensive tasks (in the sense of being equally characteristic of any army). And without Stalin, Shaposhnikov could not begin to reorganize the ground forces.

3. The “professor” is also indignant about the setting of tasks in 1939 for various industries to increase the production of defense products, and, and this is very symptomatic for the “professor of the Academy of Military Sciences”, that, without blinking an eye, he made the following conclusion - “first of all - weapons and military equipment for conducting offensive operations"! Naturally, there is no need to assume that the “professor of the Academy of Military Sciences” was even one iota aware that already in those days almost all types of weapons and military equipment of that time were, as they now say, “dual-use”, that is, for defense and offensive. Why on earth did he immediately classify guns, tanks, and airplanes as purely offensive types of weapons - only he knows. And that’s not the point. The whole point is that only thanks to this we have new planes, new tanks, new guns, etc. and so on.

Slanderingly indignant at Stalin, the “professor” clearly and unequivocally showed that Stalin prepared for war in advance and took all the necessary measures for this. Who knows how many such decisions Stalin made at that time?! It is unlikely that we will ever know their exact number. But the point is not in quantity. The whole point is that Stalin really carried out extremely intensive and advance preparations to repel Hitler’s impending aggression, only a tiny part of which is known to us. And this is clearly recorded by history!

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Chapter 4. How the coup in Ukraine was prepared It must be said that the organizers of chaos have been preparing for war for a long time. It is no secret that nationalists openly trained militants during Yanukovych's presidency and even earlier - since the early 1990s. And not only in secret camps, but also

The crisis is one of the most discussed topics today. Meanwhile, crises did not appear yesterday; they have accompanied the capitalist economy for almost two centuries. Marxism argues that crises are inherent in the capitalist mode of production itself.

If at some point the economy grows, this means that contradictions are accumulating, which at some point will lead to a crisis. This is what happens now, and this is how it happened before. A clear understanding of these patterns from the first years Soviet power allowed the leadership of our country to draw the right conclusions.

Stalin said:

"The temporary stabilization of capitalism... is a rotten stabilization, grown on rotten soil". (XIV Congress of the CPSU(b), 1925);

"From stabilization itself, from the fact that production is growing, from the fact that trade is growing, from the fact that technical progress and production capabilities are increasing, while the world market, the limits of this market and the spheres of influence of individual imperialist groups remain more or less stable - it is from this that the deepest and most acute crisis of world capitalism grows, fraught with new wars and threatening the existence of any kind of stabilization. From partial stabilization grows an intensification of the crisis of capitalism, a growing crisis destroys stabilization - this is the dialectic of the development of capitalism at a given historical moment ". (XV Congress of the CPSU(b), 1927);

In 1929, a severe crisis struck the capitalist world. In the United States industrial production fell during the years of crisis (by 1933 - the lowest point of the crisis) by 46%, the unemployment rate reached 24.9%. This crisis continued, in fact, until the beginning of World War II.

Meanwhile, by January 1, 1933, the Country of Soviets completed the first five-year plan in 4 years and 3 months. Industrial production has more than doubled over the years of the Five-Year Plan. More than 1500 were built large enterprises. Automotive, tractor, machine tool, instrument making, aviation and chemical industries were created practically from scratch. Unemployment was completely eliminated.

The onset of the Great Depression could not but exacerbate political contradictions in the capitalist world. At the XVI Congress of the CPSU(b), in the summer of 1930, Stalin, as a result of an analysis of the situation that arose in connection with the crisis, made the following conclusions:

“The bourgeoisie will look for a way out of the situation in further fascisation in the field of domestic politics”;

“The bourgeoisie will look for a way out in a new imperialist war in the field of foreign policy”;

“Every time capitalist contradictions begin to intensify, the bourgeoisie turns its gaze towards the USSR: is it possible to resolve this or that contradiction of capitalism, or all the contradictions taken together, at the expense of the USSR... interfering... especially now, in connection with economic crisis."

“Hence the tendency towards adventurist attacks on the USSR and towards intervention, which (the tendency) should intensify in connection with the unfolding economic crisis.”

This danger had to be responded to. In February 1931, ten years before the start of the Great Patriotic War, Stalin said: “We are 50 to 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must cover this distance in ten years. Either we do this, or we will be crushed” (“O tasks of business executives").

The role of the “Great Depression of the 1930s” in Hitler’s rise to power and in creating the preconditions for the outbreak of war is undoubted.

On the other hand, the Soviet people built socialism in the conditions of an impending war. Socialism is a system that allows the economy to develop without crises. This was fully confirmed before the war during the “Great Depression,” when our people quickly reduced the economic gap with the advanced countries of capitalism, which was ultimately the key to the Great Victory. Stalin managed to use this historical chance.

Crises are an inevitable consequence of capitalism. Crises condemn the masses of working people to extreme poverty and push bourgeois states towards political reaction and the outbreak of wars. It was so in the 30s, and it remains so now.

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“They talk about the successes of the Soviet government in the field of the collective farm movement
That's it. Even enemies are forced to admit the existence of serious successes.
And these successes are really great.
It is a fact that as of February 20 this year. 50% of peasants have already been collectivized
farms across the USSR. This means that we have exceeded the five-year plan
collectivization by February 20, 1930 more than doubled. ...It's impossible not to
admit that collecting 220 million pounds of seeds from the collective farm alone
lines - after successful completion of the grain procurement plan -
represents a huge achievement.
What does all this mean?
The fact that the countryside’s radical turn to socialism can already be considered
secured..."
1)I.V. Stalin
2) A.N. Kosygin
3) L.I. Brezhnev
4) M.S. Gorbachev

The creation of the government-controlled Union of Writers of the USSR refers to
1)1920s
2) 1930s
3) 1940s
4) 1950s

Place the following events in chronological order. Specify
the answer in the form of a sequence of numbers of the selected elements.
1) proclamation of Russia as an empire
2) issuance of a decree on succession to the throne strictly through the male line
3) publication of a manifesto on the freedom of the nobility
4) founding of St. Petersburg

Establish a correspondence between foreign policy events and years:
For each element of the first column, select the corresponding element from
second column.
EVENTS YEARS
A) the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany
B) entry of the USSR into the League of Nations
B) military conflict with Japan on the Khalkhin Gol River
1)1918
2) 1923
3) 1934
4) 1939

1) The English politician Disraeli stated on September 2, 1871 that “the European balance of powers has been completely destroyed. The country that is larger

who will suffer from this is England." Imagine that it is now 1900, you are an English journalist and you need to write an article about foreign policy Germany. Write it using Disraeli's statement at the beginning and at the end of the work. 2) Continue the phrases. a) In the last third of the 19th century in Great Britain, the Conservative Party was supported by _________________________ b) The Liberal Party was supported by ____________________________ 3) after 1874, two workers’ representatives appeared in the House of Commons for the first time - T. Bart and A. MacDonald. In 1879, Macdonald declared that the Conservative government had done more for the working class in five years than the Liberals had done in half a century. What do you think gave rise to such a statement? Support your point of view with facts. Write down the answer.

1. When did the government of Alexander II begin to prepare for the peasant reform?

A) 1861 B) 1857 B) 1855
2. Why were the Editorial Commissions created under the Main Committee for Peasant Affairs?
A) to collect and summarize statistical data
B) to draw up draft legislative acts on the liberation of peasants
C) to compile the final report of the Main Committee on Peasant Affairs
3. On what conditions was the reform of 1861? provided land to peasants?
A) entirely at the expense of the state treasury
B) free
B) for ransom with the assistance of the government
4. What did the peasants receive in 1861?
A) freedom from government duties
B) personal freedom
C) the right to leave the peasant community
5. To carry out the redemption of land, according to the law on February 19, 1861, the peasant had to pay 20-25% of the entire redemption amount at a time. Who paid the landowners the rest?
A) state B) zemstvo C) nobles
6. The reform of 1861 reserved for landowners:
A) the right of ownership to the courtyard people who previously belonged to them
B) ownership of all lands owned by them
B) ½ part of the landowner's land
Explain the meaning of terms and concepts:
Serfdom
Redemption payments
Segments
Temporary peasants
landowner

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Document No. 1 p. 172 In February 1931, J.V. Stalin said: “The pace cannot be slowed down! On the contrary, they must be increased according to the strength and capabilities... To slow down the pace means to fall behind. And the laggards are beaten. But we don't want to be beaten. The history of old Russia, by the way, consisted in the fact that it was constantly beaten for its backwardness... We were 50-100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do this or we will be crushed.” How did Stalin justify the need for accelerated industrial development? Evaluate the nature of his arguments. What considerations underlay them - economic or political expediency?

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1925 - XIV Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) - the priority task for economic development was declared - industrialization.

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Hostile “capitalist environment”. Economic backwardness of the USSR from foreign countries. Reasons for industrialization Features of industrialization in Western countries: Started with light industry Carried out over a long period of time Used external sources: Robbery of colonies Equal trade exchange with other countries Military indemnities Foreign loans

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Goals of industrialization: Overcoming technical and economic backwardness. Strengthening the international position. Development of basic industries. Achieving technical and economic independence Creating a powerful defense industry

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Features of Stalin's industrialization: 1. Tight deadlines. 2. High tempo. 3. Development of heavy industry to the detriment of light industry. 4. Implementation of industrialization through internal sources of accumulation: High taxes on the population. State loans from the population. Collectivization. State monopoly on foreign trade. Income from light industry. Free labor of Gulag prisoners. Selfless work Soviet people(Stakhanov movement).

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Socialism involved economic planning. The Five-Year Plan is a five-year plan for the socio-economic and political development of the USSR, approved by the Congresses of Soviets, and later by the Party Congresses. First Five-Year Plan - 1928-1932 Second Five-Year Plan - 1933-1937 The USSR became a powerful industrial power.

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1928-1932 – First Five-Year Plan See document No. 1, page 172 Objectives: Increase industrial production by 180%, agricultural production by 55%. Heavy industry was supposed to develop at an accelerated pace - 230% in 5 years. 3. Stalin put forward the idea of ​​the “Great Leap Forward” - in 5-10 years to catch up with the West, which had gone ahead in its industrial development by 50 - 100 years.

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Results of the first five-year plan: The five-year plans were not fulfilled, BUT the following were built: the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Plant, the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, coal mines in the Donbass and Kuzbass, the Stalingrad and Kharkov Tractor Plants, the Moscow Automobile Plant, GAZ; Traffic on the Turkestan-Siberian Railway was opened; New industries were created: automotive, aircraft, and chemical industries.

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V. Denis, N. Dolgorukov. The first five-year plan. Dneproges dam. Ya. Romas. Morning of the First Five-Year Plan.

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Social problems first five-year plan: Problems: Labor shortage. Lack of engineering and technical personnel. High taxes on the population. Rising prices for goods Inflation Impoverishment of the people How they decided: Elimination of unemployment, closure of labor exchanges (1930) Increase in the number of higher and secondary technical educational institutions. Use of prisoner labor (1930 - creation of the Gulag) See document No. 2, p. 172

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1930 - creation of the Gulag (Main Directorate of Camps) Political repressions of the 1920-1930s. Dekulakization Fight against sabotage Political repression and repression in the army Deportation of peoples

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Shakhty case. The Shakhty case is an open trial that took place in 1928 in the Donbass. 53 engineers and managers were accused of deliberate sabotage and creating an underground sabotage organization. 11 people were sentenced to death. The case of the Industrial Party. In 1930, an open trial took place in the case of the Industrial Party, in which prosecutor Krylenko (shot in 1937) was appointed state prosecutor. The accused were mainly representatives of the so-called “bourgeois intelligentsia”, who were charged with sabotaging the industrialization of the USSR, collaborating with foreign intelligence services, and preparing foreign military intervention in the USSR. The case of the Labor Peasant Party. The case of the so-called “counter-revolutionary Socialist Revolutionary-Kulak group Chayanov-Kondratiev” also took place in 1930. The accused were charged with sabotage in the region Agriculture and industrialization. The case of the Union Bureau. The open trial of the former Mensheviks took place in March 1931. The accused were charged with sabotage in the field of planning economic activities and communication with foreign intelligence services. The beginning of mass repression

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The plans were more balanced. The Stakhanov movement arose. 3. The encouragement of mass enthusiasm was combined with the tightening of administrative measures: coercion of government loans, the introduction of a passport system in 1932, the introduction of work books in 1938, severe punishments for absenteeism and tardiness. 3. The Kramatorsk Heavy Engineering Plant, the Azovstal and Zaporizhstal metallurgical plants, and aircraft factories in Moscow, Kharkov, and Kuibyshev were built. The Ural Heavy Engineering Plant (Uralmash), Uralvagonzavod (Nizhny Tagil), etc. were completed. 4. The USSR turned into a powerful industrial power. 1933-1937 - Second Five Year Plan

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Stakhanov movement A. Stakhanov. in the Stakhanov mine: M. Mazai, N. Izotov, P. Krivonos, A. Busygin, P. Angelina, E. Vinogradova. See document no. 3 page 173