Stalin's Missed Chance is a book published in 2000 by Russian military historian Mikhail Meltyukhov, regarding Viktor Suvorov's theories regarding Soviet war plans during 1939–1941. Meltyukhov concurs with Victor Suvorov that Stalin and the Soviet military leadership had planned an offensive against Nazi Germany in 1941, although he did not believe that the strike by Germany against the Soviet Union was planned by Hitler as preemptive. Meltyukhov suggests that while both Soviet and German leaders were preparing covertly to attack each other, neither believed that the other side would strike first.