The Russian Federation told how Stalin was warned about the German attack

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Stalin was informed about the impending German attack on June 16

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Intelligence reported on the impending invasion of Soviet territory on June 16, Naryshkin said.

The director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said that Soviet intelligence officers learned the exact date of the German attack on the USSR a few days before June 22, 1941. This is stated in an article in the journal National Defense, published on June 21.

Intelligence has long collaborated with anti-Nazi groups in European countries, he said. In Germany, such associations were headed by Arvid Harnack, known under the nickname Corsican, and Harro Schulze-Boysen under the alias Sergeant Major.

It was they who were able to find out the exact date of the invasion of the German troops into the USSR. They also provided information on how Britain and the United States intend to behave during the conflict.

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It is known that reports of the impending attack were conveyed to the leader of the USSR, Joseph Stalin, on June 16. The next day, he summoned the People’s Commissar for State Security Merkulov and the chief of intelligence Fitin. Stalin then demanded to confirm the reliability of the source and verify this information.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense published declassified historical documents World War II to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Berlin offensive.

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