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One of the most momentous decisions in history was Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Operation Barbarossa transformed Nazi Germany's war from a one-front struggle, against ...

Sixty-nine-years ago today, 3.5 million German troops, plus another million from Nazi allies, invaded the USSR. (Geographically, the land now makes up Lithuania, Belarus, eastern Poland, Ukraine, and ...

In a podcast with Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper claimed the Nazis “launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, and local political ...

In 1941, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa expecting the Soviet Union to collapse within weeks. Instead, Germany was drawn into a brutal struggle defined by endless manpower, scorched earth, and a ...

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 ...

On June 22, 1941, Hitler had 4 million soldiers of the Axis powers, along with 600,000 tanks and 700,000 horses, march into the erstwhile USSR along the full length of the Soviet-Axis front, 2,900-km ...

Introduction -- Politics 1940-1941. Europe in July 1940 ; Hitler's ideology and strategy ; The monstrous scheme : a Greater Germanic empire ; Stalin's ideology and strategy -- The eve of war. The ...

On this day, June 22: Several key incidents took place on this day, June 22, and continue to impact our lives. In 1983, the day witnessed the historic ‘Hand of God’ goal by iconic footballer Diego ...