The theory of blitzkrieg is deservedly considered a discovery of German military thought - at the beginning of World War II, the Wehrmacht demonstrated brilliant examples of “lightning war.” However, the Red Army in Poland, the Baltic states, and Bessarabia proved that, under favorable conditions, it is also quite capable of crushing the enemy in a matter of days , organizing a “red blitzkrieg” for him - in the best traditions of the Wehrmacht. Another thing is that even with insignificant resistance from the enemy (and it was not for nothing that Stalin later referred to these operations as a “walk”), not everything went as smoothly as we would like - Only during the September Polish campaign, the Red Army lost up to 500 tanks due to breakdowns and malfunctions... Read the long-awaited new book by the popular historian, famous for his bestsellers “Tank Pogrom of 1941”, “The Year 1942 - “Training”, etc. - a detailed study of the actions of the Red Army during the initial period of World War II.