Editing Great Patriotic War (section)

=== Soviet preparations and strategy ===
The Nazi Party was fiercely anticommunist. Fascism was always used by the bourgeois to repress communism and strikes. The Nazis even started with the Freikorps crushing the communist uprising in Germany in 1918, and killing its leader Rosa Luxemburg. Mussolini also repressed strikes immediately after gaining power.

Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy (along with British spies) also backed Trotskyist spies in the USSR. The Nazis tried to back a military coup to turn the USSR into their satellite state, led by Trotsky. The coup leader, General Tukhachevsky, was exposed and executed, and his followers were purged from the military.

Therefore, it was predictable that the Nazis would invade the USSR. The British also backed the Nazis with this expectation.

Some speculate that Stalin foresaw all this 10 years ahead. That is why Stalin had to industrialize. In the 1930s, the Soviets modified the Five Year Plan to mobilize their industry for war.<ref name=":1" />

On the other hand, capitalists were afraid to attack the USSR, because it would mean taking on all the Soviet workers, and risking the collapse of capitalism. With such risk, they would only do it if they were already at war.<blockquote>Yet the Second World War began not as a war with the U.S.S.R., but as a war between capitalist countries. Why? 

# Because war with the U.S.S.R., as a socialist land, is more dangerous to capitalism than war between capitalist countries. For whereas war between capitalist countries only puts into question the supremacy of some capitalist countries over others, war with the U.S.S.R. must certainly put into question the existence of capitalism itself.
# Because the capitalists, although they clamor for "propaganda" purposes about the aggressiveness of the Soviet Union, do not themselves believe that it is aggressive, because they are aware of the Soviet Union's peaceful policy and know that it will not itself attack capitalist countries.

- Stalin, Economic Problems (1952) <ref name=":8" /></blockquote>Therefore, Stalin would ally with one capitalist empire against the other. Fascism was more ruthless in oppressing communists, while liberalism nominally upheld political freedoms. Stalin would use the rhetoric of bourgeois democracy - a war for freedom - to find common ground with workers of capitalist countries. Then the Soviets could talk to proletarians, refute the lies about the USSR, and show them that the only system to truly free them is communism. This is how the Great Patriotic War resulted in huge worldwide victories for communism.