The bloodiest war, Operation Barbarossa. The 3 million-strong German army crossed the sea without concealment, massed on the Soviet border, and suddenly attacked the 700,000-strong Soviet army. They were wiped out and the Soviet general Pavlov was sentenced to to death . Let's turn the time back to 1940. Nazi Germany used lightning tactics to sweep across European countries crazily. France, especially the soy sauce expert, only resisted for ten months before surrendering. At this time, the German army was invincible, and Sidran turned his attention to the red giant Soviet Union. On June 22, 1941, Germany tore up the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" and launched Operation Barbarossa, an invasion of the Soviet Union. This morning, more than 1,750 German aircraft appeared in the lives of the Soviet people together with the sun. The German Air Force carried out targeted bombings on airports in major cities in the Soviet Union, and artillery shells fell like raindrops. 1,200 Soviet aircraft were destroyed before they even entered the war. The Luftwaffe gained air superiority in one fell swoop. The Great Patriotic War began. Hitler was very confident of taking over this land. He told his subordinates that if we kicked the door frame, the whole house would collapse. At the beginning, the Germans attacked all the way, like a surprise attack from heaven. They were full of confidence and planned to clean up the Soviet Union within 6 to 8 weeks. In order to achieve victory, Germany summoned more than 3 million people at once, which was the largest invasion force in the history of war at that time. Germany is divided into three armies. The Northern Army captures Leningrad, the Central Army targets Moscow, and the Southern Army is responsible for Kiev . As a result of gaining air superiority from the beginning, the German army quickly advanced into the interior of Russia. In Operation Barbarossa alone, more than 2 million Soviet soldiers were captured by the Germans. But the Germans completely underestimated the size of the Soviet army. When the attack reached near Moscow, the Soviet soldiers suddenly launched a counterattack, causing the German army to change from a brave offensive state to a defensive state. This was Hitler's first defeat on land during World War II. What happened that caused the German army to suddenly reverse the situation when it was close to victory? The Battle of Moscow broke the myth of the German army's invincibility and ended Hitler's ambition to rule the world. On July 3, 1941, Stalin delivered a speech on the theme of the Great Patriotic War. It was declared that this war was not only a war between the armies of the two countries, but also a great war between the entire Soviet people against the German fascist army. But at Christmas of that year, the Germans captured approximately 3 million Soviet troops. Although the losses were very heavy, the Germans maintained the fighting will of the Soviet people. The Soviet Air Force was at a loss and had no military instructions. Relying on its excellent military quality, each person took to the air eight times a day on average for combat operations. Some Soviet soldiers wrote on the wall before they died, I am going to die, but I will never surrender! Farewell, the perseverance of the Soviet Army of the Motherland. The courage to defy death gave the Germans a powerful spiritual shock.
html In July, Hitler ordered Army Group Center to suspend its plan to attack Moscow and instead help other group armies cooperate to encircle Kiev. On the Kiev battlefield, 70 divisions of the Soviet army fought bloody battles for ten days, and more than 600,000 people died, including more than 60,000 officers. In September, the German army entered
Kiev city and began a massacre. The largest siege war in human history ended with the victory of German fascism. Subsequently, Hitler's troops once again moved towards Moscow. What the German army did not expect was that in the face of such a huge defeat, the Soviet government still did not surrender. They managed to move important military factories to
the Ural Mountains and were ready to fight the Germans to the end. Moreover, Germany was delayed for a month because of the Battle of Kiev, giving the Soviet Union ample time to prepare for the defense of Moscow. At this moment, the cold winter in Russia has arrived, and the nightmare of Nazi Germany is about to come. Since it was originally planned to be a blitzkrieg of
against , the German army did not have enough manpower and material reserves to deal with a long-term war.
The German Army advancing towards Moscow would suffer their first major setback in World War II. The Soviet Union killed 27 million people and wiped out an entire generation of men. Faced with Germany's onslaught, how could the Soviet Union fight back with all its blood? Although the Soviet Union is powerful, we have no way out. Behind it is Moscow.This was the most tragic slogan in the defense of Moscow. In October 1941, Nazi Germany attacked Moscow. At this time, the weather had dropped to more than 30 degrees below zero, and more German soldiers were hospitalized due to frostbite than were shot on the battlefield. The cold winter completely destroyed the German supply lines. Not only was morale low, but even the weapons of each unit were seriously damaged due to the low temperature. The Soviet High Command took various emergency measures to defend the capital. The citizens of Moscow also mobilized. Within three days, 600,000 people took the initiative to help contain the defensive offensive, of which 3/4 were women and children. This was because their efforts supported Moscow until reinforcements arrived. The Soviet Union showed its trump card at this moment, the Siberian Division. These people had received winter war training and were originally used to prepare to deal with the Japanese, but now they had to use them when the troops came to the city. Unlike those exhausted Germans shivering in the cold wind, the Siberian troops have complete winter equipment, and each of them was born in the cold winter and grew up in the cold winter. It is absolutely impossible to conquer Moscow in winter. The German army now became the target of being hunted. On December 6, 1941, the Soviet Union launched a counterattack, breaking through the German defenses and driving them back.
The Battle of Moscow ended with the victory of the Soviet Union. The German army lost more than half a million people and a large amount of technical equipment. This was also the first time the arrogant German Army suffered major losses in World War II. Hitler's wild claims of destroying the Soviet Union in three months were completely shattered.
The Soviet-German War broke out in 1941. Soviet men born in 1923 were exactly 18 years old at that time. As for these young people, more than 80% died on the battlefield. The war doesn't take them into consideration as children. The Soviet Union undoubtedly made the greatest contribution in World War II, sacrificing a total of about 27 million people.
The heroes who died in the Great Patriotic War will be immortalized forever.
