No, there's no Nazi whitewashing here - he doesn't deny Nazi war crimes, he's talking about a theory now fiercely contested by Russians but pretty well evidenced by Russian historian Viktor Suvorov that USSR actually prepared to attack Nazi Germany after they are weakened by their European offensive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Suvorov#Works_about_World_War_II
Suvorov has a very simple rationale for his claims - **when Soviets were attacked in 1941 they had amassed strictly offensive weapons in the zone bordering with Germany, not defensive.** His whole book is filled with truly boring technical analysis of this stock. The primary question here is **why would Soviets amass strictly offensive weapons on German border**?
