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While the book became a bestseller in post-Soviet Russia, it is widely dismissed by most Western and mainstream Russian historians. Are there factual rebuttals to Viktor Suvorov's Icebreaker?

: Stalin intentionally used Hitler as an "Icebreaker" to start a war between European capitalist powers, intending for them to exhaust each other so the Red Army could later "liberate" a weakened Europe.

: According to Suvorov, Stalin had planned a massive offensive against Germany for July 6, 1941 . He contends that Operation Barbarossa was actually a pre-emptive strike by Hitler, who sensed the imminent Soviet assault.