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Prior to 1939 the Soviet-Polish border was reasonably well fortified, more along the lines of field fortifications rather than the Maginot Line. Stalin moved the great bulk of the Red Army forward of this line with his invasion of eastern Poland in 1939, and here they stayed. They were then encircled by foot infantry and panzers in the very first stages of Barbarossa.

WI only garrison/covering forces were left in Poland by June 1941, and the bulk of the Red army was back behind the Stalin line? The great bulk of the Red Army would have perhaps a week before the Wehrmacht overran the Polish occupation garrison and reached their fortified lines. Would that be enough time for the Soviet leadership to put the Red Army on alert? How would the Germans go about attacking an alert Red Army in fortified position some 300 miles beyond their start line?
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