Message from @Erwin Rommel

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2019-05-10 10:08:33 UTC  

on airfields

2019-05-10 10:08:37 UTC  

right at the new border

2019-05-10 10:08:46 UTC  

but nooo, no invasion plans at all

2019-05-10 10:08:50 UTC  

Because you tend to move plains to a border

2019-05-10 10:08:58 UTC  

Not at the interior

2019-05-10 10:09:09 UTC  

Lets also ignore the fact that tank buildup was outnumbering every other major nation combined

2019-05-10 10:09:13 UTC  

Kinda military 101

2019-05-10 10:09:21 UTC  

You don't for defensive operations

2019-05-10 10:09:25 UTC  

You forget they were fighting Japan?

2019-05-10 10:09:31 UTC  

In 1941?

2019-05-10 10:09:35 UTC  

With their entire army?

2019-05-10 10:09:45 UTC  

Please

2019-05-10 10:10:03 UTC  

An army placed on a defensive position does not have its airforce on the border

2019-05-10 10:10:13 UTC  

that's held true since 1914 and still does today

2019-05-10 10:10:24 UTC  

Why?

2019-05-10 10:10:37 UTC  

Because it's simply way too easy for the enemy to destroy your planes on the ground

2019-05-10 10:10:44 UTC  

peace time isn't a defensive operation

2019-05-10 10:10:47 UTC  

which is exactly what happened

2019-05-10 10:11:00 UTC  

They literally lost 3/4 of their airforce in the first 6 months of fighting

2019-05-10 10:11:07 UTC  

Um Russian planes didn't have much range....Hence the nearby

2019-05-10 10:11:11 UTC  

not quite 3/4 but around 70% if I'm not mistaken

2019-05-10 10:11:13 UTC  

The Luftwaffa outranged them

2019-05-10 10:11:43 UTC  

They had more than enough range to conduct defensive operations had they been placed in the rear

2019-05-10 10:12:12 UTC  

They just couldn't be placed in the rear *and* conduct offensive operations

2019-05-10 10:12:27 UTC  

Just look at the composition of the soviet army during the invasion of Finland and Poland in 1939

2019-05-10 10:12:43 UTC  

It was the same

2019-05-10 10:12:54 UTC  

it's all the same man

2019-05-10 10:13:04 UTC  

the world is a kaleidoscope

2019-05-10 10:13:11 UTC  

flowers are better than tanks

2019-05-10 10:13:18 UTC  

That just tells me you don't know how different armies are composed and placed on the battlefield

2019-05-10 10:13:22 UTC  

Also again Stalin was a moron militarily, as well he didn't think Germany would ever invade

2019-05-10 10:13:33 UTC  

Again, why he didn't respond for near 2 weeks

2019-05-10 10:13:38 UTC  

Stalin didn't need Germany to invade

2019-05-10 10:13:45 UTC  

He was convinced WW1 would repeat itself

2019-05-10 10:13:50 UTC  

and he was mostly correct

2019-05-10 10:14:02 UTC  

the only mistake he made was not predict how quickly Hitler would overrun Western Europe

2019-05-10 10:14:05 UTC  

nobody did

2019-05-10 10:14:17 UTC  

Even Hitler himself was surprised again and again

2019-05-10 10:14:26 UTC  

especially with France and Norway

2019-05-10 10:14:49 UTC  

Stalin's plan was to let the west fight it out then proceed west himself

2019-05-10 10:15:00 UTC  

with his thousands of new tanks and planes