To me, the most intriquing thing about Barbarossa is how the Russians allowed to be handed a blow like that. Stalin seemed genuinly surprised with the attack, even though it was in the cards. Papers across the world wrote that Hitler was massing an army of 3 milion men against the Russian border, all asking onequestion-when. Stalin could have been aware of something few have been, what turned out to be a trap he was led into. I am not familiar with anything that explains the succes of complete surprize on the part of Germans.
To stay within the limits of the forum, I want to ask a question; How the Russians react to German attack of 1941 when they are ready, and waiting for the whistle. How the blietzkrieg plays out when the element of surprize is gone?