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Who Started Wwii

Who was responsible for the greatest armed conflict of all times, the Second World War? The history books have their version. Then again, the history is written by the winner… WWII officially started September 1st, 1939 when Hitler’s Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Given this fact, there should be no question as to what really happened. However, there are many details and discrepancies that continue to raise questions, instead of answering them. Answers to these questions are very hard to find in any official history book. One of the theories is that WWII was to be used as a tool for a World Revolution and was devised by the Soviet Union. The following looks to answer this theory and the following questions: Was the Soviet Union ready for the war? Why did Hitler attack such a vast country as the Soviet Union to begin with? Are there any events in the pre-wars years to prove this theory? Did the Soviet Union have plans for the war?
In order to discuss this theory, we first must look at revolutions in general. In his book “Revolutions”, Jack A Goldstone talks about the necessary factors for a successful revolution namely entering a state of war. This is apparent in the French Revolution, American Revolutionary War, fight for independence by worldwide colonies and especially in the Bolshevik Revolution of Russia. (17, 18). An external war puts a government in a weakened state therefore making it susceptible to internal conflict. Revolutionaries take full advantage of such circumstance and sometimes using anti-war propaganda call the masses to their cause (21).
The communist revolution in Russia was no different. It happened in the closing stages of World War I when the Russian Empire was at its weakest. After the success of the revolution, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin were looking to continue the workers revolution world wide. Alexander Bushkov cites the writings of Lenin, and Stalin in his book “Russia That Never Was”: “Revolution must be globolized, the revolution will...