I am Finnish, we were not and have never been Communist, ill look at what else you have to say but please try not to make up shit.

Also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyPj21jBl_0

‘communism in one country ‘ Well obviously that was a lie, if that is what they said. They expanded into the eastern part Poland, took over Estonia and Latvia, as well as parts of Romania, Finland and Lithuania. This was before Germany invaded them.

Also after the war they sent weapons and supplies to China, Indochina, Korea and many other places to help install communism governments.

This all under Stalin.

I believe the difference in Trotsky and Stalin was more tactics and strategies, than just ideology.

With the geographical, yes all major powers are concerned.
Japan and the Soviets fought in 1939 and always a threat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet–Japanese_border_conflicts

The British we’ll have a look at operation Pike.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pike
Also remember the British, Us and French supplies arms to anti communists forces during the Russian civil war

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War

The USA as unlikely as it was could of attacked the Soviet union on the east coast. Now this only talking of course on threats.i know different levels but to an empire still something they would plan for. Remember the 1904 Russo-Japanese War though was not a direct threat to Moscow, it led to lost of territory but more importantly it cause revolution.

Turkey force themselves were not the threat but it joining a major power such as Germany or Great British was. It is strangely located near the oil fields.

What I am concluded with all this is that Stalin would of known all threats but choose to ignore these defencs.

Instead he move the forces and build it up in Poland why?

It can not be for defence. You would have move same level of forces but keep many more in reserve in Ukraine, West Russia as not to get hit if a suprise attack happens.

The Soviets were not “always about world revolution”. They changed to ´communism in one country´ with Stalin being one of the most prominent leaders in 1924. Hence Trotsky getting axed from the program. Your second paragraph is just bizarre given geography. Yes they were very concerned with Japan but with the rest, no.

Of course the Soviets had plans for a war with Germany, the USA & UK each had plans for a war with the other up until WW2 and the (forced) UK acceptance of it´s second tier status, a Great Power, not a Super Power. The USA still had, until at least the 90´s, plans for an invasion of Canada. It probably still does. It is the job of a competent military to have plans for wars they may never wish to fight. I am not saying the Soviets didn´t plan to invade, just if they did, Hitler didn´t know about it and certainly didn´t go to war to protect Europe from communism. He wanted Germany to be a Super Power, as we now call it. An equal alongside the Anglo Powers, France having been demoted to the 2nd tier by agreeing to the ´entente cordiale´.

As for Stalin´s purge, I do not think your conclusion is justified. Yes it did weaken the Red Army but I think Stalin was most concerned with maintaining communist rule and hence his own rule. Would the Red Army have performed better without the purge if those purged had been loyal, to the death, communists? Yes, I think that cannot be really questioned but clearly Stalin didn´t think they were and since during his purges it got so ridiculous, such as regions having to meet quotas, loyalty to the communist way was very weak outside the true believer´s (my semi-educated guess is 3-10%). Finely the Germans did as a matter of fact invade and were greeted by many Russians and others as liberators from the hated Communists. Until the killings started.

As for Hitler, meh that is a whole other discussion, however their was (evil) logic to his madness. The WoD is available as a free download, first result on MS Bing (DuckDuckGo uses Bing so no point with that) in fact. It is an eye opener and explains why the Germans did some of what they did beyond simple ideology. No excuse for the A2 though, which some, I forget who, wag said was “the first time in modern warfare where one side decided to unilaterally disarm” .

PS, it´s occurred to me, this “I´m a robot” is simple surreptitious AI training.

What JohnC911 said.

At first glance, yes, it appears that Hitler simply destroyed Europe – and that is a largely correct assessment, actually. But there is good reason to believe that he feared a Soviet invasion, and acted preemptively. I go through this in the podcast, and the Suvorov thesis is a valuable and important revisionist contribution to the historical debate.

None of this is an excuse for Hitler’s actions. The man was a deranged psychopathic servant of evil – from a Christian perspective, you could literally SEE the Satanry in his eyes when he spoke. But that does not mean that his actions were completely unhinged or irrational.

The Suvorov Thesis, by the way, is extremely controversial in Russia. The Russians have been trying to “rehabilitate” Stalin’s image for years – which is why The Death of Stalin, which is one of the funniest black comedies ever made, was basically banned in the country, even though it is not even remotely offensive to Russia in general. But it does seem to be gathering traction, because Suvorov’s facts are unassailable – they come directly from Soviet archives. The Russians have been trying to sort of explain their way around the problem by turning Stalin’s buildup as a “defensive measure”, because Stalin supposedly feared a German invasion.

The fact that Stalin purged his own Red Army so thoroughly, and left it so badly weakened in the process, directly contradicts this view.

Read The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War II by Viktor Suvorov.
Soviets were always about world revolution. Stalin had plans to invade all of Europe, that is why they lost 75% of all artillery, planes and ammunition. It is because they had it close to the border. You don’t do that for defence.
Especially the Soviet union size and potential threats from all sides. East with Japan, the Usa, south with Turkey, France and the British Empire and of course Germany on the west. Let alone internal threats inside the Empire.