Barbarossa at 80
Some eight decades have passed since what is arguably the largest land invasion in modern times kicked off,
Unternehmen Barbarossa, pitting 3.8 million German, Hungarian, Italian, Finnish, Slovak, and Romanian troops against the scandalously unexpecting Soviet legions of Generalissimo Stalin.
German soldiers crossing Soviet border post ,June 22, 1941, Barbarossa
Safronov Viktor Alekseevich (b. 1932.) – June 22, the border
Red Army anti-tank gun crew wiped out. “They fought for Homeland.” By G. M. Zykov
Although the wave would eventually break on the outskirts of Moscow– even Napolean had at least captured the vacated Kremlin some 120 years prior– the war on the Eastern Front was far from over and would claim millions on both sides.
Today, Barbarossa is seen through the lens of a myriad of conflicting issues even today in Germany.
Meanwhile, the Russians have a view that nothing is forgiven, or forgotten.
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