If you could go back in time to May 1941, would you warn Stalin about the impending German invasion?

Answer 1

Hello,

I would do nothing to change things and shut my mouth.
There are all sorts of science, string theories and quantam theories out there that saying there could be dire consequences if one when back in time to try and alter history.

Many of us would cease to exist since many baby boomers parents met only under the circumstances of the war etc. History might also take an entirely different route where Russia becomes strong industrial and military wise and later takes over the world; Stalin's track record on human rights was little better than Hitlers.

Finally as another said they'd probably think you were a bs artist and I doubt you'd get by his 3rd secretary to see him.
Talk about coming from the future, you would get the same sort of reception as trailer park alien abductees today and shipped of to a lunie bin or work camp.

Michael

Answer 2

Because he was shocked. Richard Sorge was not an active spy at the time. He was staying in Japan because he already had the death sentence at home. Second he sent about twenty something messages indicating that Germany will not invade Soviet Union, they will invade in March of 1941, May 1 1941, May 16, June 1 Etc. so you choose which to believe. About strategic games (there were 2 of them) started on Jan. 2 1941 never was a scenario of the German invasion. source: Archives of Red Army published 1996 by AST books.

Answer 3

No because Stalin already had spies, treacherous Germans and others telling him of the coming invasion. He started mobilizing his army months before the invasion anyways. He must've had a good idea the war was coming to the Soviet Union

Answer 4

I don't know. The German army was tied up and finally devistated. If the Russians had been better prepared and crushed the Germans fast, they would have proceeded on to Berlin and past it. More of Europe would have been communist and Russia would have had access to more advanced industry. We wouldn't have gotten the German rocket capability nor the minds that created our space program. I think the world would have been a very different place.

No I wouldn't warn them.

Answer 5

No, I would go to Hawaii and try to convince the Navy to remove ships from that area before Dec 7, 1941. We all know that the Russian's would have defeated the German's anyway. Their winters would kill troops upon arriving.

Answer 6

He knew of the German plans to invade, he did sign the pact to give him time to develop some industrial bases and of course modernize the red army

Answer 7

Certainly not. He'd throw the person into the gulag for decades. I had a Polish Jewish friend who wanted to help. As soon as Germany invaded Poland, he sent his wife into hiding there and headed for the Soviet Union to volunteer his services as a chemist. They threw him into various prisons and kept him until 1955. Finally they let him go, he found his wife, he got a Ph.D. in chemistry in Canada, and I met him in 1965 when he came to the U.S.

Answer 8

No, It was'nt neccessary, he already knew.
A person in the German Army told me about
their invasion of Russia. He said the Russians
would march across the frozen river in formation into battle. He said " we were
shooting so fast our maching guns got too hot
and quit firing and they kept coming" He was
captured and later escaped. { his name was
Ziggy and he worked for us as a mechanic at
our liason group].

Answer 9

He had been warned for the several times by the agents, who worked in Germany. He was a self-confident and petty tyrant, who was sure no one can pretend to attack him, but USSR.

Answer 10

Many people did try and tell him, but he refused to believe the warnings.