ENGL 101 Lecture 9: Italy part 2 and the Invasion of Russia Part 1
17 Aug 2017
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September: hitler shifts priority of attack to southern russia. October: thousands of russian civilians dig trenches around moscow. November 27: german advance on moscow is halted. December 8: hitler orders all forces in ussr to shift from offensive to defensive operations. November 19 20: ussr launches two offensives against germans. Soviet premier; ordered scorched-earth policy to halt german advances in. Bolshevism the radical communism that vladimir lenin had installed in russia during the. Russian revolution. moreover, hitler wanted to exterminate the racially inferior russian people from leningrad, moscow, and the rest of the western ussr while pushing the rest of the population eastward beyond the ural mountains. Despite the fact that the ussr was far larger than germany both geographically and militarily, 3,000 in battle. the setback was devastating and would take the ussr a long time to overcome. 1930s, stalin had most of the soviet military leadership murdered or sent to labor camps in.
