Russian President Vladimir Putin often evokes the Soviet Union's epic defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II to justify his country's invasion of Ukraine. Yet Putin is committing some of the same ...
In June 1941, Nazi Germany launched the largest land invasion in history against the Soviet Union. Hitler believed the Red Army would collapse quickly—but he severely underestimated Soviet resilience ...
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 ...