What was the role that the USSR played in fighting Hitler?

Answer 1

The role USSR in fighting Hitler was huge. Russians lost about 20 million people. Every family in USSR lost someone in this war. The USSR began the war with a non aggression pact with Germany and Japan. Germany broke the pact and invaded the USSR. The USSR was not prepared for the war with Germany, and was not able to stop Hitler's armies until just outside Moscow - the capital of Russia - in the autumn 1941. But then they kept all their strength and people and turned the Hitler back. The Red Army, army of USSR, captured a lot of German soldiers and even armies, of which very few ever returned to Germany as they helped to rebuild what they had destroyed. The USSR was able to push the German armies out of Russia and occupy Berlin, East Germany.

The record shows, however, that Stalin's orders were to shoot ant Russian soldiers that retreated in the early days of the Nazi successes.