ÎN ZORI, EI... NU DORMEAU. „ATACUL PREVENTIV SOVIETIC” ȘI REPLICA GERMANĂ DIN 22 IUNIE 1941 (1)
WHEN DAWN CAME, THEY... WEREN’T SLEEPING. „THE SOVIET PREEMPTIVE STRIKE” AND THE GERMAN REPLY OF JUNE 22, 1941 (I)

Summary/Abstract: Despite the internal turmoil meant to strengthen the social, economic and political regime lay down in October 1917, after the end of the Civil War, the USSR continued to establish itself externally as a great center of power in the international relations arena, harboring immense geopolitical ambitions. The Moscow regime would gradually normalise international relations, after 1922, but without settling the debts of the Czarist state and without relinquishing its lead as a world revolution hub. On the one hand, the USSR will continue to maintain „normal” diplomatic and commercial relations with other powers and will also control the activity of communist parties in other countries via the Comintern, the ultimate goal of such parties being to destabilize the existing governments with which the USSR maintained „normal” relations. The pinnacle of this policy of „peaceful coexistence”, inaugurated by the Peace of Brest-Litovsk (March 3, 1918), was reached on August 23, 1939, through the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. National Socialist Germany and the Soviet Union engaged until June 22, 1941 in a race against time in order to consolidate their political, economic and military positions in areas of peak strategic and geopolitical interest. Has June 22, 1941 sparked the early confrontation between the two geopolitical options that marked European and world evolution throughout the twentieth century? The answer to this question continues to breed numerous and fierce historiographical controversies.

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