Socialism in one country - no provoking avoid conflict and confrontation
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The German threat
- Hitler hated communism - Stalin searched for allies (anti-comintern italy/germany/japam) Joined League 1934 - Munich agreement 1938 Appeasment - Nazi soviet pact 1939 non agression secret protocol
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German Invasion
1941 operation Barbarossa - Stalin suprised ignored warnings didnt think Hitler would risk war on two fronts - victim of propaganda - stayed in dacha for 2 days and gave no instructions - Purges left army weak
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Operation Barbarossa German vs Russian military
Germany 4000 tanks (STalin4xmore) - three million troops (matched) - 3000 aircraft (3xmore)
scorched land campaign - patriotism - used to harsh conditions - The siege of leningrad 1941-44 - Battle of Stalingrad 1943-43 - 25 million died
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The siege of Leningrad
1941-1944 - 226 arrested for cannibalism - 900 days
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The battle of Stalingrad
1942-1943 - Symbolic - fight till death - 24 hour life expectancy - 1 million Russian troops 20,000 german - Hitlers most successful army 6th destroyed -
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Stalins Leadership
- Propaganda patriotism 'motherland' - Made German move further into Russia allowing army to become weak before counterattacking - The battle of Kursk 1943 and operation Bagration - return of religion for unification 414 churches built -Conscription
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Foreign Help
Lend Lease - 17million tonnes of war equipment - 17% rations 1900/2000 trains - war on 2 fronts bombed Germany to distract -
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General Winter
Russians used to freezing conditions - Hitlers 6 week delay meant troops unprepared for conditions wrong tyes on tanks
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Hitlers misjudgments
- didnt take advantage of Russian peasant support - war on 2 fronts - delayed by 6 weeks - unprepared for conditions - seige on leningrad AND MOSCOW instead of force
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Wartime reorganization/preparation
- 5 yr plan prepare for war collectivisation peasants used to condition - conscription - move of 2500 factories east - by 1942 over 50% national income on war more than britain and france in better shape
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General Statistics
51/4 Russians prisoners of war - 15000 SOviet men died a day 1941-42 - - 25 million died of famine - end of 1941 half population in German hands -
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Front
The German threat
Back
- Hitler hated communism - Stalin searched for allies (anti-comintern italy/germany/japam) Joined League 1934 - Munich agreement 1938 Appeasment - Nazi soviet pact 1939 non agression secret protocol
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