Do we know everything about the tragic events of June 1941? The book by Gennady Spaskov presents a non-trivial view of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and answers the questions: - if Stalin did not believe in Hitler’s attack, why did the border divisions of the Red Army take up combat positions on June 18, 1941? - who and why took them away from the border on June 21 areas of the main attacks of the Wehrmacht? - What mistake of the General Staff should be considered fatal, leading to the defeat of the Red Army in the first months of the war? - What happened to Stalin on the evening of June 20? - Why could the routine process of bringing the Red Army into combat readiness could plunge the USSR into a disastrous war on two fronts? - Why was Churchill dragged into the anti-Hitler coalition against his will and who was the true enemy of the British Empire - Hitler or Roosevelt? - Why did the victory over Germany in alliance with the USSR and the USA bring death to Great Britain as an empire and why did Churchill prepare the bombing of the USSR on June 22, 1941?< /p>