1941: The Missed Strike. Why was the Red Army caught off guard?

Although all libraries were written about the catastrophe of 1941, the mystery of the greatest tragedy of the 20th century is not solved so far. Why the Red Army was never shown in combat readiness, although all intelligence literally shouted that the attacks should be expected from day to day? Why did the leadership of the USSR ignore all the warnings about the impending war? Whose fault, the control of troops was lost in the first hours of hostilities, and the West Front defeated in a matter of days? Some blatant facts simply do not fit in the head. So, in the evening of June 21, when the leadership of the Western Special Military District was at a concert in Minsk, the head of the explosion came to the commander and reported that the border was very restless. & quot, this can not be, some kind of nonsense reports that the German troops are given in complete combat readiness and even started the shelling of certain sections of our border & quot ,, said to his neighbors. Pavlov and, putting a finger to her lips, showed on stage, no one thought to leave the performance! Moreover, on the eve of the war, there was a direct ban on the dispersal of aviation of the district, and on June 21 - the order for drying fuel tanks, the troops were forbidden to open fire, even by large groups of German aircraft crossing the border, with border wastings were withdrawn (alleged & quot, for inspection & quot,) Automatic weapons, and the ammunition of dollars, tanks, aircraft ordered was to pass to the warehouse! What is it - criminal incompetence, non-irresistitivity, frank idiocy? Or something more? .. The new book of the leading military historian not only gives an answer to the most bitter questions, but in detail, day after day, restores the course of the first battles of the Great Patriotic