>>91015
Let me explain that in oversimplified version
Barbarossa was an preemptive attack as abwehr knew the societs wanted to shoot first and they planned with later found mobilisationi plan 41 and later confirmation by alex suvorov who was chief of navy by that time and later also by loius marschalko whom also was a russian

The myth of weak ussr army was created by assumption of their defeat in finland but actually they were in 1941 best equipped fighting force in the world and looking also on soviets expansion it was obvious to anyone who could into geopolitics they wanted war