On June 22, 1941, Germany launched its invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, codenamed Operation Barbarossa. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler predicted a quick victory, but after initial success, the brutal campaign dragged on and eventually failed due to strategic blunders and harsh winter weather, as well as a determined Soviet resistance and attrition suffered by German forces.
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brutal campaign dragged on and eventually failed due to....
And to material ferried into Murmansk at great cost, as well as convoyed overland through Iran.
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..read an analysis that figured that the Soviets had burned through their armor assets by early winter and the only tracks between them and the Germans before Moscow were the ones that had arrived from the UK via the Murmansk runs. Interesting. Valid?
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#2 ..read an analysis that figured that the Soviets had burned through their armor assets by early winter and the only tracks between them and the Germans before Moscow were the ones that had arrived from the UK via the Murmansk runs. Interesting. Valid?
Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-06-22 10:08
P2k,
I think that might be an echo of German accounts/reports that showed the German General Staff so badly underestimated actual Soviet strength that by their own reckoning they had 'destroyed' the Red Army by late fall....but they kept coming.
Mike
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^ Don't forget that Zhukov and his Siberian Army were lurking just east of Moscow waiting for Stalin's order to join the fight.
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Nah, that "Siberian army" myth has been debunked. The divisions were raised from around the Moscow area and sent into combat.
The real reason is that the Germans identifed 10 Soviet armies in front of Moscow. Destroy them and the war is won. They destroyed nine of them. The Soviets hid their strength so well nobody knew they were so hideously well armed. The Germans had identified over 300 divisions and they just kept coming. That plus the inadequate German logistics sealed the deal.
The lend lease didn't get going until 1942 didn't hit stride until 43. By that time the Germans were out of oil and had failed to seize more in the Caucasus (stopped at Stalingrad along the way).
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Barbarossa was supposed to begin in the spring of '41. The Greek defeat of the Italians in the Balkans forced the Germans to divert 700,000 men and materiel to the Balkan/Greek Invasion and delay Barbarossa. Otherwise, the Germans would have had additional time, men and materiel to take Moscow.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, for a week they have not been able to cope with the consequences of heavy rains, and on the eve of heavy rainfall fell in Bukovina.
As a result of bad weather in Ukraine flooded 240 houses in Chernivtsi and Dnipropetrovsk regions, reports GSCHS in Monday, June 21.
So, in the Chernivtsi region, 29 residential buildings and 87 household plots in 15 settlements remain flooded. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, 23 private houses and 102 households are partially flooded.
It is also noted that the day before, as a result of bad weather, local roads with a total length of about 30 km and the road surface of 9 bridges in 29 settlements were partially damaged (travel to settlements is provided). There are no casualties or injuries as a result of the bad weather.
35 people and 18 pieces of equipment (including 7 motor pumps) were involved in eliminating the consequences of bad weather from the State Emergency Service. In total, about 1,160 square meters of water was pumped out from 63 household plots and 51 residential buildings. The work on pumping water continues.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, during the day on June 20, the divisions of the State Emergency Service pumped out 56,288 square meters of water (since the beginning of work - 605 thousand 218 square meters of water). The work on pumping water continues, 21 people and 21 units have been attracted from the department. equipment (including 14 motor pumps).
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The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Minsk has suspended its activities. The political leadership of Belarus has declared the undesirability of the presence in the post-Soviet republic of a senior human rights adviser to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Thus, the official Minsk achieved what it wanted, being in a protracted and acute conflict with the UN Human Rights Council.
Speaking on June 21 at the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stated: "The situation in Belarus continues to deteriorate."
She drew attention to the fact that in Belarus there are "severe restrictions on civil space, including the right to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association", the security forces are carrying out "raids against civil society and independent media."
The authorities of the post-Soviet republic are under attack not only by human rights activists and journalists, but also by civic activists. Unacceptable measures are being taken against them, which is why the High Commissioner "continues to receive numerous reports of arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and ill-treatment”.
Bachelet also said that she regrets the official Minsk decision that negatively affected the work of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry does not comment on the situation.
The National Human Rights Action Plan (NHRAP) was approved by the government of Belarus in 2016. It was announced as a comprehensive document. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry periodically reported on the success of its implementation against the background of directly opposite assessments coming from the Belarusian public and international organizations. For many years, official Minsk has refused to recognize the mandate of the UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on the situation with human rights in Belarus.
It is possible that Russian special services are behind the explosions at the Svoboda ammunition factory in the Serbian town of Cacak. This suspicion was voiced on June 21 by the expert of the Institute of International and National Security (Serbia) Darko Trifunovic on the air of the Serbian TV channel Prva.
Trifunovic recalled that all production lines at the Svoboda factory have been updated, and that even Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic doubted that the explosions were accidental, since they occurred in rooms where there is no electrical wiring.
“I would organize an investigation for sabotage,” Trifunovic said, adding that similar incidents have recently occurred in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria.
"Bulgaria and the Czech Republic are investigating the Russian secret service of the GRU and their Unit 29155 (PDF), which is suspected of organizing explosions at military depots, about which they believed that they were delivering (artillery) weapons to Ukraine," Trifunovich said.
On the same day, the Serbian journalist and politician Zoran Ostoich, on the air of the Pink TV channel, repeated the thesis that Russian special services could be behind the explosions at the Svoboda factory, but he did not rule out that what happened could be a signal to the Serbian leadership after the visit British Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace. "I would associate this with the visit of the British minister and with the agreement that he signed with Vucic on counteracting foreign malignant influence," said Ostoich.
Let us remind you that the owner of the Pink TV channel Zeljko Mitrovic is considered one of the close associates of Alexander Vucic. The former wife of the President of Serbia, Ksenia Vucic, is the director of one TV channel of the Pink media corporation - Pink 3.
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'We feel for the Americans, but we don't want the same in Russia!'
Direct translation. Edited. See the link for end notes and additional notes by Vladimir Ryabtsev
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