The USSR had a number of advantages against Germany in World War II. These included the tactical advantages of fighting on its own soil, better machinery, such as the T-34 tank, and better leadership. The Nazis underestimated Soviet resources, and many say Hitler's micromanagement of faraway troops contributed greatly to the Nazis' losses.
During WW II, the Soviet Union was one of the allied countries which helped to defeat Nazi Germany.
The Soviet Forces closed in on Hitler and Berlin to defeat the Nazis and get them to surrender. They also had a score to settle. The Nazi Germans killed 20 million of their people.
The main idea of Operation Barbarossa came from the Germans and their plan to invade the Soviet Union. It is important because though the Germans started the invasion, it also led to their defeat.
In WW2 the Germans got as far as Stalingrad in the south, and the Caucasus mountains, just north of Grozny. Leningrad was besieged in the north, & Moscow was not reached. Essentially Stalingrad was as far as the Germans got, at the end of 1942.
In Russia, the Germans' goal was to take over Soviet
the soviet defeat in Afghanistan helped bring an end to soviet power in 1991, the soviet union broke up the five soviet republics of central Asia became independent nation
The Germans began to retreat from the Soviet Union after fierce fighting at the city of Stalingrad. The Battle of Stalingrad, which lasted from August 1942 to February 1943, marked a significant turning point in World War II, as the Soviet forces encircled and defeated the German Army. This defeat forced the Germans to abandon their offensive in the East and initiate a retreat, signaling a shift in the momentum of the war in favor of the Soviets.
The Germans suffered a major defeat at Stalingrad in southern Russia on the Volga River during World War II in 1943. This battle marked a turning point in the war as it halted the German advance into the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union
The 1945 defeat of the Third Reich came due from multiple factors. The primary and fatal mistake of the Germans were repeating Napoleon's gamble by invading the Russian motherland. The Germans could not effectively supply such a wide line, and the ensuing Russian winter crushed them. The opening of the Western and North African Fronts through Allied Invasions, specifically the entrance of the United States in the War proved the second blow. The Soviet encirclement of the German 6th Army under Paulus at Stalingrad was another strategic event lending to defeat.
They were members of the Soviet armed forces who were taken prisoners by the Germans.
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