"The Russian's Lost the War in Eight Days"

"The Russians lost the war in eight days," Hitler declared after his Nazi war machine started to tear apart the Soviet Union. They had taken over many pieces of the Soviet land and were only 220 miles away from Moscow. The Soviets were
preparing for a worst case scenario and moved their classic art collection from Moscow to out of the
grasps of the Nazis. The Soviets were some of the best defenders of their homeland. They realized that war would be to the death and fought desperately to keep Hitler out as no other country had.

As time passed and the Nazi's got closer and closer to Moscow, Stalin was hoping that the Soviet's greatest ally would help them out, winter. The first sign that their ally was coming was in Leningrad. There were many different natural barriers that were causing the Soviets in Leningrad top survive. Lake Ladoga kept the Finnish army out and bogged them down. Although the Finnish had recaptured the land lost in earlier battles with Russia, they still fell short of their goal of taking Leningrad Stalin was however making defense impediments-barbed wire, anti-tank ditches, and many others barriers to keep Germany out. Stalin also went on the offensive by sending the Soviet Air Force bomb Berlin. It appears that the true battle had not yet begun however.

Josef Stalin

The Anti-Comintern Pact

The Beginning of Alliances

The Nazi-Soviet Pact

The Invasion of Finland

The Annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Shifting Sides

Operation Barabossa

"The Russians Lost the War in Eight Days"

Cold Winter

Moscow, Kiev, and Stalingrad

The Battle for Moscow