Soviet Storm tells the complete story of the War on the Eastern Front, profiling the epic campaigns and battles, revealing the tactics employed by both sides and exposing the true horrors of a conflict almost unimaginable in its sheers cruelty and depravity. Hitler and Stalin were prepared to accept losses on any scale in the pursuit of victory. The Red Army suffered ten times as many dead as the Western Allies combined.
Four out of every ten German soldiers to be killed in WWII would die fighting the Russians. Over 30 million people would be slaughtered in the horror, most of them civilians. Instead of collapsing, the Soviet Union held strong and-under the utterly ruthless leadership of Josef Stalin-fought a savage, four year war of attrition on a scale the world had never before witnessed. Four million troops, backed by 19 panzer divisions, fought their way east, confident of total victory within a just few short months.
On 22nd June 1941, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa-the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia. War Documentary hosted by David Riley and Mike Cooper,
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