Was Stalin preparing an attack on Germany? Did the suddenness of the German attack really cause the bloody tragedy of June 22, 1941? Is it true that, despite all the warnings from intelligence officers and the military, Stalin did not allow troops to be put on full combat readiness? The reader will find answers to these and many other questions in the second volume of the new five-volume project of the historian A. B. Martirosyan - “200 myths about the Great Patriotic.” Author of the famous books “Conspiracy of Marshals. British intelligence against the USSR", "June 22. The Truth of the Generalissimo", "Tragedy of June 22: Blitzkrieg or Treason? Stalin’s truth”, “Who brought the war to the USSR? Sensational revelations,” the five-volume book “200 Myths about Stalin,” debunks numerous myths about the tragic beginning of the war created by Western and Russian historians, writers and journalists.