When Russian President Vladimir Putin says it was the Soviet Union, not the Western allies, that defeated Nazism and “saved the entire world,” he can point to this date, June 22, as a pivotal moment ...
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The Fatal Anniversary: Hitler's Army Struck Down on the Day Germany Invaded Russia Three Years Before
Then, at 3:00 a.m. on June 22nd—the exact three-year anniversary of Operation Barbarossa—the Soviet "vengeance force" struck. Despite heroic resistance from hardened German units like the 78th Sturm ...
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Stalin's City of Bones: Hitler's Plan to Annihilate Leningrad in Operation Barbarossa
Adolf Hitler saw Leningrad not just as a military objective, but as the symbolic birthplace of Bolshevism that had to be ...
On 22 June 1941, the German Wehrmacht launched a war of aggression against the Soviet Union. Under the code name ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the campaign aimed to bring the vast country in the east to its ...
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