2 1pain1Duck,

Exactly:) Why they need to prepare for stopping of Blitzkrieg if they were preparing for attack and even Hitler knowed that he can`t beat Soviets if they have another front against UK. He said that couple times and this was just the same as was told by Bismarck.
And WWII showed that Germany was not ready for war against Soviets, even in such situation when Soviets had best forces near the border where they were smashed in the early period of war.
Nothing would stop Soviets if they had attack before germans. German Luftwaffe would be burned near the border just like Soviets and all army groups would be surronded just like Soveit groups in the early days. And one more thing, Soviets main strike was planed for Rumanian oil fields, and this means, that Germany would lose all oil supply in the beginnign of war. I think there is nothing to explain what will happen then with mechanic units. This would mean that there is no serious force against Soviets till the British channel.

2 IliaDN,

IliaDn this spy (Rihard Zorge) had a failure before, therefore Moscow ordered him to return already year before. He knew exactly what this means in such country as Soviet Union and refused to come back. Would you believe such spy`s info? Especially when he says that Hitler will done most stupid thing in the world - attack Russia whith his light tanks, no tactical bombers, shortages of oil, no weapons, armor, dresses for Russian winter etc.

2 PanzerJager,

Does Germany had defence plans against Soviets when they started Barbarossa? And how these plans (if they had) would work when all forces are on the border, with supply, planes etc, right after their backs?

2 Papewaio,

Stalin acts was against old generals and oficiers that were from Civil war and thinked like that - massive cavalary against peasents etc. They know nothing about modern warfare and actually most of them received promotions during assasin actions in Civil war. These comanders thinking was the same as French old comanders etc. Instead of these comanders (Uborevich, Blicher, Jakir etc.) raised new ones - ZHukov, Shaposhikov, Timoshenko, Konev etc. So he did everything correctly, because he was preparing for modern warfare.