About the book: 2012 / NEW book from the bestselling author of “1941: The Leader’s Trump Card” and “June 22: There was no “suddenness”!” Refutation of key Stalinist myths about World War II! Developing the ideas of Viktor Suvorov, the author convincingly proves: contrary to the lies of the “anti-rezunists”, at the beginning of the war the Red Army was not inferior to the enemy either in the reliability of armored vehicles, or in the level of mechanization and combat training of troops, or in the quality of personnel. In the summer of 1941, our tankers were much better trained than in the victorious 45th, and would have had an advantage over the Panzerwaffe even without the T-34 and KV, since the “obsolete” types of Soviet tanks were not much inferior to the newest German panzers, and were superior in numbers there are many of them! Why then did our tank forces suffer such a crushing defeat, losing more than 20 thousand units of armored vehicles - seven of our tanks for one German? Why did they skid and retreat all the way to Moscow, almost losing the war? The only reasonable explanation for this historical paradox can be found in this book..