Operation Barbarossa
The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 succeeded in part because they attacked with no warning. The Soviet Union didn't have time to react to the German army's invasion.
June 22. 1941
The invasion of the Soviet Union had to specifically start in June, at the beginning of summer, as the extreme Soviet winters would have made an invasion impossible.
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The German invasion of the Soviet Union during WW2 was called Operation Barbarossa.
Operation Barbarossa was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on 22nd June 1941.
Stalin was surprised by the German invasion of the Soviet Union because he had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and believed that Hitler would not attack.
The terrible winter weather
Germany : Operation Barbarossa was the German invasion of Russia .
The soviet union survived the invasion because they had enough people and resources to continue to fight. The leaders had no care for the people they were loosing in the war, and they were able to keep their industrial force by disassembling factories and moving them farther into the soviet union.
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