Quote Originally Posted by bad manners
Are you prepared to read all the sources, in their entirety?
No, but I know others will. And Volkogonov would have been crushed if he had made things up.

There is one "alternative history" writer, who cites lots of sources. Proving that the USSR was about to launch an assault on Germany. Even though any single source says and _implies_ otherwise. Frankly, one does not even need to read all those sources, one "Mein Kampf" is enough to see who wanted to attack whom.
I know. His name is Suvorov and he's full of sh*t. "Mein Kampf" proves nothing, though. The fact that Hitler was planning to attack in 1923 already, doesn't mean that his actual attack in 1941 couldn't have been a reaction to Soviet preparations.

However, I agree with you (and so do most serious historians who have totally trashed Suvorov on the basis of sources) that it is "alternative history" and Stalin wasn't planning to attack in 1941.

I don't have to know/read all the sources for that. Historians that are familiar with the matter and have access to the same sources as Suvorov, have done that job for me.