22nd of June. The final diagnosis. Solonin M.S.

In the summer of 1941, the Red Army was not inferior to the Wehrmacht either in number or in weapons, quantitatively exceeded the Germans in the means of applying a powerful counterattack - tanks and aviation, and had the opportunity to build defense on the system of natural barriers and long -term defensive structures. How could such a terrible defeat happen to the army of the Soviet Union, endowed with innumerable natural resources, which was carefully preparing for a large war?

a well-known historian based on data extracted from previously classified documents and materials, as well as the analysis of scientific, historical and memoir literature refutes already established and new myths about the causes of catastrophic defeats of the Red Army in the first months of the Great Patriotic War, gives Objective, deeply argued interpretation of the border battle. The author pays primary attention to the influence of the human factor on the course of hostilities.