Read this excerpt from joseph stalin's radio broadcast on july 3, 1941: “the fact of the matter is that the troops of germany, as a country at war, were already fully mobilized, and 170 divisions hurled by germany against the u. s.s. r. and brought up to the soviet frontiers were in a state of complete readiness, only awaiting the signal to move into action, whereas the soviet troops had little time to effect mobilization and move up to the frontiers.” which statement is the most reasonable inference about one of the underlying meanings of this excerpt? a. russia was prepared for a german invasion, but its troops were too far from its frontiers. b. the german invasion caught the russian army completely by surprise. c. the russian army couldn't fight because it hadn't been training for war. d. russia wasn't prepared to fight germany, because its troops were fighting elsewhere.