In a dirty street fight, where all means are good, there is only one rule: HIT FIRST! Being a gopnik by nature (the criminal past, the rich experience of robberies-expropriations affected, and the Soviet government always considered thieves "socially close"), Stalin also brought the morals of street punks into big politics, but he clearly underestimated another European "plowman" - in the summer of 1941, Hitler managed to catch him, as they say, "on a backswing," ahead of him by a few days, and strike at the moment when the Red Army prepared for attack was the most vulnerable. And no matter how official historians fight, trying to refute this sensational version, first put forward and substantiated by Viktor Suvorov, his discovery finds more and more evidence and loyal supporters, and the impact of his books on public consciousness is comparable only to the effect of the Gulag Archipelago.