Battle of Moscow

The Battle of Moscow during WWII in 1941/1942. This is a general overview of the events leading up to and surrounding the campaign.

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• Battle
• of
• Moscow
• 1941
• 1942
• stalin
• hitler
• zhukov
• stalingrad
• leningrad
• russia
• soviet
• nazi

[ubergeek76]

Grand job with the history of the battle.

[Giaiwtbm]

Very nicely done!

[lukebccb]

And still the Wermacht had to keep fighting! The 1941 Red Army handled the blitzkrieg no better than the Poles/French/British but they had MUCH more land to give up and keep fighting and MOST IMPORTANTLY the Red Army was governed by the ruthless police state of Stalin who was prepared to accept the kind of losses that no French or British leadership could ever accept.

Thus the irony that Stalinism probably was what saved Russia from nazi genocide against Russia.

[lukebccb]

The difference between the French/British and Red Army not being able to handle the blitzkrieg is that when the British and French were overrun by the Wermacht there was really no where left to flee but for the British to the coast to escape and there were no French reserves. The Battle of France ended with encircled French armies with nothing left.

In contrast the Wermacht encircled huge Red Army groups that France and Britain could've never afforded to lose.

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[lukebccb]

The 1941 Red Army was an army ready to be overrun given the 1937 purge of officers plus plain inferior army BUT the 1941 Red Army was no different than the Poles and the Belgians and the French AND British (GEE HOW FOLKS ALWAYS FORGET THE BRITISH GOT THEIR ASSES HANDED TO THEM TOO IN THE NAZI INVASION OF FRANCE) armies getting steamrolled by the Wermacht.

The Poles, French, BRITISH didn't know how to handle the blitzkrieg...... as the 1941 Red Army couldn't either.

(cont.)

[lukebccb]

The Red Army that rolled into Berlin in April 1945 was a completely - oppositely - different army from that Red Army of 1941. The Red Army from 1941 was totally destroyed in the nazi invasion. The 1945 Red Army was an army that had been slowly built/rebuilt up from 1942 thru 1944 and was equipped with superior tanks, artillery, planes and american transport as opposed to the 1941 Red Army that WAS equipped with obselete equipment.

[thisherecat]

The narrator is not quite what he should be...

[rexy004]

@bachnagy yes that is correct

[bachnagy]

@rexy004 The USA also supplied those commie bastards with Planes, trucks, tanks and ammo to help them, which also gave them time to build new tanks and stock up! They couldn't have done it without US!! Germany was spread thin and were led by an idiot otherwise the Russians would be humming Beethoven's 9th!

[Sandberg95]

@jeffman3003

rlx freaking Yankee.

He say's "nazi soldiers" because they are nazi soldiers. And I know more than over a half of that 4 million troops did not volunteer or where nazis.

But still they where in a nazi regime and a nazi battalion.

And as you said "Republican soldiers", that's what Bush would have called it, but the soldiers itself would have theire own meanings if they where Republican's or not. As like as the German soldiers, some sayed they where nazis, others did not.

[Scoutrussp7]

@rexy004

I suggest you should read some books and learn that in that time were only few new tanks and katushas

nazis had troops near border, when soviet troops was inside all vast territory of SU.

How many time will be gone during their mobilization...