Adolf Hitler's army launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in history, sweeping into Russia with devastating speed. The Red Army, poorly organized and underprepared was caught off-guard ...

Operation Barbarossa transformed Nazi Germany’s war from a one-front struggle, against a weakened Britain and a still-neutral United States, into a two-front conflict. The Eastern Front absorbed as ...

ON June 22 1941 Nazi Germany began its invasion of the Soviet Union. This history of its first weeks is based on a decade’s research, into official documents, personal diaries and letters, court ...

BERLIN, June 21, 1941 (UP) ... The OGPU commissar systematically trained German Communists for the disintegration of Germany. The Soviet Russia diplomats and consular agents aided greatly in this.

Russia held a massive military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II ... 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War in 1941-45, ...

Russia has celebrated the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, ... The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War in 1941-45, ...