Viktor Suvorov - Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?

\"Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?\" is a 1987 documentary book, which alleges that World War II started as a result of Joseph Stalin\\\'s ploy to \"liberate\" the working class of Europe and eventually the whole world.

Suvorov challenges the widely-accepted view that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime attacked an unsuspecting USSR on June 22, 1941 with a much superior and better prepared force. Instead, Suvorov argues that the Soviet Union was poised to invade Nazi-controlled territories in July 1941. Suvorov claims that Stalin successfully manipulated Hitler into removing the \"buffer zone\" (Poland) between Europe and the USSR. Suvorov further argues that Stalin\'s goal was the export of communism to other countries. Once Hitler \"broke the ice\", Soviet victory in the large-scale war that followed would enable the USSR to impose Stalinist regimes on most of Europe. In this theory, Nazi military aggression would ironically form the icebreaker for a communist invasion.