Why did June 22, 1941 turn into such a terrible disaster for our people? There are two main versions of the answer. First: the enemy treacherously, without declaring war, attacked our peaceful country with superior forces. Second: Hitler was simply ahead of Stalin. Alexander Osokin put forward and outlined in the book “The Great Secret of the Great Patriotic War” (Vremya, 2007, 2008) a completely new hypothesis for the start of the war: Stalin was preparing the Red Army not for an attack on Germany and not for defending the country from a Nazi attack, but for transferring across Poland and Germany to the shores of the North Sea. In his new book, Alexander Osokin provides numerous new evidence and documents confirming his sensational hypothesis. Where was Stalin on the day the war started? Why was Yakov Dzhugashvili captured? What was submariner Alexander Marinesko hunting for? The answers to these questions are unexpected and convincing.