The Historical Works of the Soviet Union, Part Four:
Note: Since the history of the Soviet Union in World War 2, is such a long subject, it will be in both part 4,5 and 6 of the historical work. This will not cover literally every battle involving the Soviet Union in World War 2. As 3 parts are not long enough for that. Also throughout the websites information on World War 2, missing soldiers, doesn't mean not killed soldiers
In June 1941, Hungary, Romania, Finland and mainly Germany, invaded and declared war on the Soviet Union, in Operation Barbarossa. This was a part of the war of World War 2. This ended the Soviet Union's focus on industrialisation and ended therefore ended the rapid industrialisation program.
Romania entered the war, to get a tiny amount of Soviet Union’s territory, the Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina regions, that the Soviet Union took off Romania, by threatening them in 1940. Finland entered the war, to get the Karelian territory back off the Soviet Union. That the Soviet Union took, in the winter war. Hungary entered the operation, fearing Germany, would go against them if they didn't. Germany entered the war, to conquer rest of the western area Soviet Union, to have its territory a part of the new German Empire. With the western Soviet Union being more populated than the east. To a small degree Germany also entered the war believing the Soviet Union would go against Germany in World War 2, at least economically.
Japan which was allied to Germany and planning attacks on the Soviet Union, was to get the eastern parts of the Soviet Union including most of Siberia, as part of their empire. Japan empire was not communist.
Germany’s main excuses for this desired conquest in the war, was based around the belief that non-German people, far more so Slavic (made up most Eastern European cultures including Ukraine, Russia and Belarus) people, were inferior. As well as removing Communism, from the Soviet Union. The economic belief embraced by Germany was capitalism (non-communist belief), only with heavy regulation on foreign trade done by companies.
The German leaders had a few secret plans, for the Soviet Union. Enslaving many Slavic Soviet people. Getting millions of Baltic(Lithuania, Lativa and Estonia) and Slavic people off their property land, both by taking much food off many of Slavic people, for occupying German soldiers and so forth, in the post war occupation and deporting many Baltic and Slavic people to western Siberia(which had a very cold climate). Then sell or give the property land to German people, to be able to live in the Nazi German Empire. Germany planned to get more Germans in their empire through encouraging Germans to breed more and banning German immigration to America and Canada.
Other secrets plans were killing off all Slavic civilians in the Soviet and Russian cities of, Leningrad and Moscow. Taking the property land off Leningrad. Preventing the chance of rebellion in Moscow and turning Moscow into a lake. Part of the reason for the plan to destroy Leningrad and Moscow was so that much farmed food in the Soviet Union, could go to Germany, after World War 2, instead of the Russians in those cities. The reason Germany wanted so much food, to make sure they got more some of their food from their own empire, instead of importing the food from overseas by ships, which the enemies of Nazi Germany stop through blockades.
Germany was also allied to Italy, Japan and Bulgaria. Italy was invading Egypt. Japan was invading China. Germany and it’s World War 2 allies, were called the AXIS countries. In World War 2, Germany was also at war with Britain.
The political party of Germany was the Nazi party. One Nazi belief was hatred of the Jews, largely based around the belief they are immoral, greedy and to many Nazis evil. Another Nazi belief was fascism. Fascism at the time, meant the beliefs of:
1. patriotism
2. anti-racial equality
3. sexism to females
4. non-capitalism
5. anti-communism
6. supporting a dictatorship that embraces the other fascist beliefs
Soviet people often refereed to German soldiers and leaders as fascists. The dictator of Germany was a Nazi, Adolf Hitler:
Romania entered the war, to get a tiny amount of Soviet Union’s territory, the Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina regions, that the Soviet Union took off Romania, by threatening them in 1940. Finland entered the war, to get the Karelian territory back off the Soviet Union. That the Soviet Union took, in the winter war. Hungary entered the operation, fearing Germany, would go against them if they didn't. Germany entered the war, to conquer rest of the western area Soviet Union, to have its territory a part of the new German Empire. With the western Soviet Union being more populated than the east. To a small degree Germany also entered the war believing the Soviet Union would go against Germany in World War 2, at least economically.
Japan which was allied to Germany and planning attacks on the Soviet Union, was to get the eastern parts of the Soviet Union including most of Siberia, as part of their empire. Japan empire was not communist.
Germany’s main excuses for this desired conquest in the war, was based around the belief that non-German people, far more so Slavic (made up most Eastern European cultures including Ukraine, Russia and Belarus) people, were inferior. As well as removing Communism, from the Soviet Union. The economic belief embraced by Germany was capitalism (non-communist belief), only with heavy regulation on foreign trade done by companies.
The German leaders had a few secret plans, for the Soviet Union. Enslaving many Slavic Soviet people. Getting millions of Baltic(Lithuania, Lativa and Estonia) and Slavic people off their property land, both by taking much food off many of Slavic people, for occupying German soldiers and so forth, in the post war occupation and deporting many Baltic and Slavic people to western Siberia(which had a very cold climate). Then sell or give the property land to German people, to be able to live in the Nazi German Empire. Germany planned to get more Germans in their empire through encouraging Germans to breed more and banning German immigration to America and Canada.
Other secrets plans were killing off all Slavic civilians in the Soviet and Russian cities of, Leningrad and Moscow. Taking the property land off Leningrad. Preventing the chance of rebellion in Moscow and turning Moscow into a lake. Part of the reason for the plan to destroy Leningrad and Moscow was so that much farmed food in the Soviet Union, could go to Germany, after World War 2, instead of the Russians in those cities. The reason Germany wanted so much food, to make sure they got more some of their food from their own empire, instead of importing the food from overseas by ships, which the enemies of Nazi Germany stop through blockades.
Germany was also allied to Italy, Japan and Bulgaria. Italy was invading Egypt. Japan was invading China. Germany and it’s World War 2 allies, were called the AXIS countries. In World War 2, Germany was also at war with Britain.
The political party of Germany was the Nazi party. One Nazi belief was hatred of the Jews, largely based around the belief they are immoral, greedy and to many Nazis evil. Another Nazi belief was fascism. Fascism at the time, meant the beliefs of:
1. patriotism
2. anti-racial equality
3. sexism to females
4. non-capitalism
5. anti-communism
6. supporting a dictatorship that embraces the other fascist beliefs
Soviet people often refereed to German soldiers and leaders as fascists. The dictator of Germany was a Nazi, Adolf Hitler:
In World War 2, both the Soviet Union and Germany had semi-automatic firearms, meaning guns only needing a trigger pulled to shoot and not a lever pulled to activate the gun. Both sides also had automatic guns, meaning a gun were a trigger pulled can shoot a set of bullets. Both sides also had tanks. Both sides had artillery, which could launch army rockets and so forth at enemy soldiers. Germany many military planes, while the Soviet Union only had a small amount of functioning ones. The Soviet Unions army, was also known as the red army.
The Soviet Union had far less skilled generals and regular red army officers(leaders), due to Joseph Stalin killing most generals and regular officers in the great purge, in the 1930s.
The Soviet Union’s economy was better, and in this case more prepared for the war, due to the rapid Industrialisation program, from the 1920s-1930s. As mentioned in part 1 and 2, of the historical work.
When one Soviet woman heard the news of the invasion, she said, “everyone around me was crying. What struck me was people were crossing themselves. They were praying, but we were taught in school, that god doesn’t exist."
Also by the time of the invasion, there was a small rebel force, of 5,000 soldiers, in the small cultural regions of Chechnya and Ingush, which was in the Soviet state of Russia. To make them independent, from the Soviet Union. Some Soviet forces would fight the rebels.
In July, there was a battle in and around the Soviet city Smolensk. Where Germany fought Soviet forces, to try capturing the area. German forces were sent from the south and north of the area. In the battle 1,000,000 Soviet soldiers fought in the battle. 186,000 Soviet soldiers died, and 300,000 Soviet soldiers got captured. One captured soldier was one of Joseph Stalin’s sons. Germany captured the area, with the remaining Soviet soldiers retreating and the Soviet Union losing the battle.
Also in July, Germany did airstrikes on the Soviet and Russian capital city Moscow, with 1,000s of civilians eventually being killed from it.
In between August and September, in operation Barbarossa, the German forces tried march to the capital of the Ukrainian state in the Soviet Union, Kiev, to capture it. This began the battle of Kiev, where over 600,000 Soviet soldiers, would battle German forces trying to capture Kiev. The Soviet soldiers in the battle had orders, by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, not to retreat. In the battle, most of the over 600,000 Soviet soldiers would be captured and the rest missing, or killed. The German forces would march to and capture Kiev.
Before Kiev was captured, 100,000 Jews fled the city. Also, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, killed all the imprisoned criminals in the city, believing they might join Germany, to get revenge for their imprisonment. Other cities the Soviet Union retreated from also had their prisoners killed. Germany used these prison killings as anti-Soviet propaganda, on its people.
Soon after Kiev was captured, German forces did a 2 war massacres. One targeting the Jews, killing over 33,000 of them, including teenage and child ones. Soon after that, German forces did another one, killing over 60,000 people in the city, who were Jews, communist party members, captured Soviet soldiers and Gypsies.
By that point of Operation Barbarossa. Romania would recapture Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Finland would recapture Karelia and minor other Soviet territory. Germany would capture and occupy much territory, of the Soviet Union, in the first months of Operation Barbarossa. Even before Kiev was captured, by the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union lost a lot of territory:
The Soviet Union had far less skilled generals and regular red army officers(leaders), due to Joseph Stalin killing most generals and regular officers in the great purge, in the 1930s.
The Soviet Union’s economy was better, and in this case more prepared for the war, due to the rapid Industrialisation program, from the 1920s-1930s. As mentioned in part 1 and 2, of the historical work.
When one Soviet woman heard the news of the invasion, she said, “everyone around me was crying. What struck me was people were crossing themselves. They were praying, but we were taught in school, that god doesn’t exist."
Also by the time of the invasion, there was a small rebel force, of 5,000 soldiers, in the small cultural regions of Chechnya and Ingush, which was in the Soviet state of Russia. To make them independent, from the Soviet Union. Some Soviet forces would fight the rebels.
In July, there was a battle in and around the Soviet city Smolensk. Where Germany fought Soviet forces, to try capturing the area. German forces were sent from the south and north of the area. In the battle 1,000,000 Soviet soldiers fought in the battle. 186,000 Soviet soldiers died, and 300,000 Soviet soldiers got captured. One captured soldier was one of Joseph Stalin’s sons. Germany captured the area, with the remaining Soviet soldiers retreating and the Soviet Union losing the battle.
Also in July, Germany did airstrikes on the Soviet and Russian capital city Moscow, with 1,000s of civilians eventually being killed from it.
In between August and September, in operation Barbarossa, the German forces tried march to the capital of the Ukrainian state in the Soviet Union, Kiev, to capture it. This began the battle of Kiev, where over 600,000 Soviet soldiers, would battle German forces trying to capture Kiev. The Soviet soldiers in the battle had orders, by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, not to retreat. In the battle, most of the over 600,000 Soviet soldiers would be captured and the rest missing, or killed. The German forces would march to and capture Kiev.
Before Kiev was captured, 100,000 Jews fled the city. Also, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, killed all the imprisoned criminals in the city, believing they might join Germany, to get revenge for their imprisonment. Other cities the Soviet Union retreated from also had their prisoners killed. Germany used these prison killings as anti-Soviet propaganda, on its people.
Soon after Kiev was captured, German forces did a 2 war massacres. One targeting the Jews, killing over 33,000 of them, including teenage and child ones. Soon after that, German forces did another one, killing over 60,000 people in the city, who were Jews, communist party members, captured Soviet soldiers and Gypsies.
By that point of Operation Barbarossa. Romania would recapture Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Finland would recapture Karelia and minor other Soviet territory. Germany would capture and occupy much territory, of the Soviet Union, in the first months of Operation Barbarossa. Even before Kiev was captured, by the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union lost a lot of territory:
Germanys captured territory, included Soviet Union’s regions, Belarus and the Baltic regions of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. In captured Ukrainian farming regions, that were anti-communist and victims of the Holodomor famine, committed by the Soviet Union, the German soldiers were welcomed as liberators. Some Ukrainian farmers, in the captured territory, would join the German army to fight the Soviet Union.
In Soviet territory controlled by Germany, Germany would take food off the civilians there and give it to their German soldiers, occupying the territory. Retreating Soviet forces, also destroyed many Soviet civilian crops, to minimise the amount of food occupying German soldiers were given. Famine(starve to death on mass) would happen for Soviet civilians in the German occupied and controlled regions. The Soviet newspapers and so forth, may not have told the general Soviet public, about the scorched earth polices.
There were also cases of certain German soldiers, raping Soviet women, in Soviet territory under German control.
There was also a battle between Soviet and Finnish forces, where Finland captured a town and 7,000 Soviet Soldiers died.
In German controlled Belarus(state in the Soviet Union). Germany also burnt Belarusian villages were burnt down, while having many, or all of their people killed. This was to try scaring off both communist rebellions and take the property land from the villages. While planning to sell the property land, to German people, at some point after World War 2. At least to some degree village destruction was also done in German controlled Ukrainian and Russian territory.
One army unit was stationed in Belarus, that did some of the village destruction, was the Dirlwanger Brigade. They also punished people that were seen as actively anti-Nazi, often through killing and torturing. In total 30,000-100,000 Belarusians were killed by the Dirlwanger.
In Finnish controlled Soviet territory, Soviet Russian civilians were sent to internment camps, that could be classed as concentration camps. Some died due to the conditions, in the camps. This was done, to make sure they didn't rebel, against Finland.
In World War 2, a million Ukrainians and Russian would immigrate to the Soviet state of Kazakh, as refugees. This would increase the cultural Russian and cultural Ukrainian population of the state of Kazakh.
In September, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, and Britain sent forces to invade and try capturing Iran. Since Iran was about to ally with Germany. The Soviet Union invade from the north and the British invaded from the south.
During operation Barbarossa, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, stopped the Soviet Union destroying Churches and so forth. Then the Soviet Union got the Christian workers, such as priests, to announce support for the Soviet Union, in World War 2. To try getting devoted Christians, to think more supportively of the Soviet Union in the war. Joseph Stalin also removed Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, as leader of the red army (Soviet Union’s army). Then made himself leader of the Red army.
In the Soviet territory, controlled and occupied by Germany. Would have some Soviet civilians, called partisans doing attacks on German soldiers. These attacks were rare at first. However, one group of German forces massacred 10,000 Soviet Jews, in Belarus, as revenge for an attack that killed 2 German soldiers. The idea of revenge on Germany, for the 10,000 Jewish civilians killed, made civilian attacks on German soldiers far more common. If a partisan was captured by Germany, they were killed.
In September, German forces fought Soviet forces around the city Leningrad. Germany won the battles and captured Soviet territory around Leningrad. Leningrad was a city in the Soviet Union and the state of Russia.
In September, the siege of Leningrad began, of the siege was mostly done by Germany, using captured territory around Leningrad. The siege was done by in part by Finland. It was meant to get Leningrad, to surrender to Germany. The siege would block nearly all food being supplied to the city. This would result in much starvation to the city’s population, of a few million Soviet Union civilians, including teenage and child ones. This starvation included starving to death. Some civilians even ate either wild birds, or pet animals.
There were many Soviet forces in Leningrad, to stop the German forces sieging Leningrad being powerful enough go to Leningrad and capturing it. Soviet artillery forces in Leningrad, shot at German tank forces, sieging Leningrad. In the siege, there would battles between German and Soviet forces, around the city, in the short term.
Also, by this point in Operation Barbarossa, Germany did war massacres on Jewish civilians. Which even outside the massacres at Kiev, killed 100,000s of them, with more massacres on Jewish civilians in Operation Barbarossa to happen. At least some of the Jews killed in war massacres, were killed after certain Soviet civilians told German forces, they were Jews. 1,000s of Jews were killed in riots, committed by certain civilians, in German controlled Soviet territory, which Germany allowed.
The massacres in Operation Barbarossa, the Siege of Leningrad and the airstrikes on Moscow, motivated Soviet soldiers to fight more. Out of wanting to get revenge, for the massacres and siege and wanting to prevent more massacres.
Also in September, the Soviet Union and Britain had defeated Iran. With the Soviet Union occupying and controlling the top half of Iran. The Iranian forces had mostly summited to the invading Soviet and British forces. With cases of battles between Soviet forces and Iranian forces, that killed 40 Soviet soldiers. Northern Iran would be occupied by the Soviet Union, throughout the rest of the war.
In October, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, conscripted all males aged 18-28, in the Soviet Union. Besides males in Soviet territory, controlled by AXIS countries. There were probably older and underage males, that volunteered for the red army. There would also be cases of Soviet women, volunteering to join the red army. Soon, after the red army would have 14,000,000 trained Soviet soldiers.
In order to have so much food, for so many soldiers, who didn’t work on farms. Food had to be heavily rationed for Soviet civilians and soldiers, by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Rations being limits on items. The Soviet Union also had doctors working for soldiers instead of civilians, which meant Soviet civilians were more likely to die of diseases.
Many of the red army soldiers that fought in World War 2, fought because they were legally required to fight in the army. As well as to maintain the Soviet Union, along with its socialism and communism. Soviet soldiers believed, that if Germany conquered the Soviet Union, Germany would take factories and property land owned publicly, by the Soviet governments and then sell or give it to certain people, to own factories and get land lordships. At least some also believed Germany wanted to enslave the Soviet people, which was something that the Soviet government preached to the Soviet people and something that seemed believable due to Germanys harm against civilians. One Soviet soldier said quote, “My father was communist, from the earliest age, he instilled in us, the idea, that the motherland was everything and must be defended."
Generally, culturally Russian red army soldiers, believed that fighting in the war, was helping and serving Russia. Not all red army soldiers were Slavic, as some were from Georgia, Armenia and many Muslim regions.
By October, even outside the battle of Kiev and the battle of Smolensk, Germany captured over 1,000,0000 surrendering Soviet soldiers. All captured Soviet soldiers by Germany and Finland, were sent to prisoner of war camps with conditions of starvation. Out of not wanting to spend much on the food, for the prisoners of war. The Soviet Union also sent captured Finnish soldiers, to prisoner of war camps with conditions of starvation. The Soviet Union sent captured German soldiers, to the gulag slave labour camps.
Also, by October, over 400,000 culturally German people, lived in the eastern Soviet Union. The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, deported them to collectivized farms, that were in other areas of the Soviet Union. This was done, largely based around the belief that many Soviet Germans, might join Germany as soldiers, if Germany captured Soviet areas with them in it.
In October, Romania captured the Ukrainian city Odessa, by Romanian forces sieging Odessa and making the city surrender. Then a bomb exploded on a Romanian military base killing 67 Romanian soldiers. In retaliation, the Romanian forces did a war massacre in Odessa, killing at least 39,000 Jews.
In October, in operation Barbarossa, Germany began the battle of Moscow, near the Soviet Union’s capital city Moscow. Germany was trying to send soldiers to try marching into the city and capturing it. Germany had 2,000,000 soldiers in the battle and the Soviet Union had 1,000,000.
In the battle of Moscow, German and Soviet forces would fight each other in the towns of Briansk and Vyazma. Germany would beat the Soviet forces in those towns and capture them. The forces would counite to fight each other in the battle, with German forces slowly advancing.
In the battle, a General in the Red army, Georgy Zhukov organised for civilians in Moscow, to build forts and trenches around Moscow. When the German forces was next to the forts and trenches, many of them would fight the Soviet Union’s forces. However, 2 sets of German forces went around the forts and trenches. One went around the left of them and one went around the right. Then the 2 sets of Soviet forces, each fought the 2 sets of German forces. The German forces were halted.
Also during the battle, in November, Joseph Stalin did a speech to the Soviet people, through radio and so forth. This speech was about Soviet Union in world war 2. In the speech he lied, that 10x more German soldiers got killed then Soviet soldiers. To try and increase the confidence of Soviet peoples, including Soviet soldiers.
In December, the German forces retreated in the battle of Moscow. The Soviet Union began shooting at the retreating German soldiers. However, almost all of the German soldiers retreated. The Soviet Union had 500,000 soldiers killed or missing. One reason for the Soviet Union won in the battle, was their highly armoured T-34 tanks, in the battle.
The end of the battle of Moscow, was the end of the campaign called operation Barbarossa. However, since Germany captured Kiev, Germany had captured much more Soviet territory. After operation Barbarossa, World War 2 in the Soviet Union, would still go on.
After Operation Barbarossa, Joseph Stalin wanted a short campaign to re-capture all Soviet territory captured by Germany. However, his generals advised agianist the idea, believing it would fail. So Joseph Stalin, then decided not to do the campaign.
Also in December, America joined World War 2, against Japan and Germany, mainly to stop a possible future invasion of America. Japan would also capture the British colonial puppet nation of Malya (Malaysia).
Also in December, Germany had also captured nearly all of the large island of Crimea, through battling Soviet forces. Which is right next to Ukraine and apart of the Soviet Union. So then 28,000 Soviet soldiers battle German forces, in the area in Crimea, Kerch, and capture it. 7,000 Soviet soldiers had been killed in battle in Crimea, in December.
By 1942, the Soviet Union had lost so much territory, including farmland, to their enemies. So, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin made civilian rations lower. This would result in some Soviet civilians, starving to death.
In January 1942, Germany started putting 2,200,000 Ukrainian civilian’s, into slave labour, in Germany. By this stage Russian and Belarusian civilians were in and were being sent to slave labour in Germany. This was to get them to make and get supplies for Germany in the war. This included making weapons, in factories. As well become farmers and workers at non-military factories. Since more German people becoming soldiers meant less German people being farmers and factory workers, making and getting such items for German people. The slaves were not given much food and often starved to death.
Also in January, the Soviet Union sent Soviet forces, in the Rzhev-Vyazma offensive to battle German forces and try recapturing some territory. Territory that was near Moscow and the siege of Leningrad and in between that territory.
Also in January, Soviet forces were sent, to battle some of the German forces sieging Leningrad, in the battle of Lyuban. In May, the Soviet forces lost the battle, with many of them captured, or injured, or killed. 33,000 Soviet soldiers, soon after the battle, failed to retreat and soon got captured by German forces. By then the Soviet Union managed get some of Leningrad's civilian population, to flee the city.
Also in May, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, sent 640,000 soldiers to try to recapture territory in Ukraine, made up of the city Kharkov and around Kharkov. The Soviet soldiers would battle German forces in the battle. In May, the Soviet forces would lose and retreat with 207,000 soldiers captured, injured or killed.
After the battle around Kharkov, German forces invaded some of the Soviet territory around Kharkov, battling Soviet forces. The Soviet forces would lose. Then the German forces circled around 240,000 Soviet soldiers. The Soviet soldiers would surrender and become prisoners of war.
Also in May, the Soviet Union won the Rzhev-Vyazma offensive. One area captured in the campaign was called Demyansk. Germany would send German forces to Demyansk and battle Soviet soldiers, to try and fail to recapture it. The fighting in Demyansk would go on for another 9 months.
By June, German forces, after battling Soviet forces, captured Crimea. Also by June 1942, Japan had captured the Netherlands(Dutch) colony of the Dutch east Indies (Indonesia), the British colony of Burma and American colony of the Philippines, after invading them.
In July, German forces, along with some Italian and Romanian forces, was moving towards Stalingrad. Stalingrad was a Soviet city in state of Russia. The main motive of trying to capture Stalingrad, was that it was named after the Soviet Union’s leader Joseph Stalin. So therefore capturing it would give confidence to German forces and less confidence to Soviet forces. Soviet forces, would battle the enemy forces near Stalingrad, with the Soviet forces losing, with enemy forces still moving towards Stalingrad. The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, refused to evaluate the civilians in Stalingrad. Believing Soviet soldiers would fight more to defend Stalingrad, if there were civilians in the city.
In August, the enemy forces, went next to Stalingrad. Beginning the battle of Stalingrad. Germany planned for more German forces at Stalingrad. However, those forces had a lack of oil, for their army equipment. They were meant to take Soviet oil, after marching on some oil fields. However, before they marched on the oil fields, Soviet forces, destroyed the oil fields.
In the battle, Germany did airstrikes Soviet forces in Stalingrad. Which would kill at least 20,000 Soviet civilians, including teenage and child ones, in the cross fire. Then the enemy forces, would march more into the city and the Soviet forces went to fight the enemy forces.
In Soviet territory controlled by Germany, Germany would take food off the civilians there and give it to their German soldiers, occupying the territory. Retreating Soviet forces, also destroyed many Soviet civilian crops, to minimise the amount of food occupying German soldiers were given. Famine(starve to death on mass) would happen for Soviet civilians in the German occupied and controlled regions. The Soviet newspapers and so forth, may not have told the general Soviet public, about the scorched earth polices.
There were also cases of certain German soldiers, raping Soviet women, in Soviet territory under German control.
There was also a battle between Soviet and Finnish forces, where Finland captured a town and 7,000 Soviet Soldiers died.
In German controlled Belarus(state in the Soviet Union). Germany also burnt Belarusian villages were burnt down, while having many, or all of their people killed. This was to try scaring off both communist rebellions and take the property land from the villages. While planning to sell the property land, to German people, at some point after World War 2. At least to some degree village destruction was also done in German controlled Ukrainian and Russian territory.
One army unit was stationed in Belarus, that did some of the village destruction, was the Dirlwanger Brigade. They also punished people that were seen as actively anti-Nazi, often through killing and torturing. In total 30,000-100,000 Belarusians were killed by the Dirlwanger.
In Finnish controlled Soviet territory, Soviet Russian civilians were sent to internment camps, that could be classed as concentration camps. Some died due to the conditions, in the camps. This was done, to make sure they didn't rebel, against Finland.
In World War 2, a million Ukrainians and Russian would immigrate to the Soviet state of Kazakh, as refugees. This would increase the cultural Russian and cultural Ukrainian population of the state of Kazakh.
In September, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, and Britain sent forces to invade and try capturing Iran. Since Iran was about to ally with Germany. The Soviet Union invade from the north and the British invaded from the south.
During operation Barbarossa, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, stopped the Soviet Union destroying Churches and so forth. Then the Soviet Union got the Christian workers, such as priests, to announce support for the Soviet Union, in World War 2. To try getting devoted Christians, to think more supportively of the Soviet Union in the war. Joseph Stalin also removed Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, as leader of the red army (Soviet Union’s army). Then made himself leader of the Red army.
In the Soviet territory, controlled and occupied by Germany. Would have some Soviet civilians, called partisans doing attacks on German soldiers. These attacks were rare at first. However, one group of German forces massacred 10,000 Soviet Jews, in Belarus, as revenge for an attack that killed 2 German soldiers. The idea of revenge on Germany, for the 10,000 Jewish civilians killed, made civilian attacks on German soldiers far more common. If a partisan was captured by Germany, they were killed.
In September, German forces fought Soviet forces around the city Leningrad. Germany won the battles and captured Soviet territory around Leningrad. Leningrad was a city in the Soviet Union and the state of Russia.
In September, the siege of Leningrad began, of the siege was mostly done by Germany, using captured territory around Leningrad. The siege was done by in part by Finland. It was meant to get Leningrad, to surrender to Germany. The siege would block nearly all food being supplied to the city. This would result in much starvation to the city’s population, of a few million Soviet Union civilians, including teenage and child ones. This starvation included starving to death. Some civilians even ate either wild birds, or pet animals.
There were many Soviet forces in Leningrad, to stop the German forces sieging Leningrad being powerful enough go to Leningrad and capturing it. Soviet artillery forces in Leningrad, shot at German tank forces, sieging Leningrad. In the siege, there would battles between German and Soviet forces, around the city, in the short term.
Also, by this point in Operation Barbarossa, Germany did war massacres on Jewish civilians. Which even outside the massacres at Kiev, killed 100,000s of them, with more massacres on Jewish civilians in Operation Barbarossa to happen. At least some of the Jews killed in war massacres, were killed after certain Soviet civilians told German forces, they were Jews. 1,000s of Jews were killed in riots, committed by certain civilians, in German controlled Soviet territory, which Germany allowed.
The massacres in Operation Barbarossa, the Siege of Leningrad and the airstrikes on Moscow, motivated Soviet soldiers to fight more. Out of wanting to get revenge, for the massacres and siege and wanting to prevent more massacres.
Also in September, the Soviet Union and Britain had defeated Iran. With the Soviet Union occupying and controlling the top half of Iran. The Iranian forces had mostly summited to the invading Soviet and British forces. With cases of battles between Soviet forces and Iranian forces, that killed 40 Soviet soldiers. Northern Iran would be occupied by the Soviet Union, throughout the rest of the war.
In October, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, conscripted all males aged 18-28, in the Soviet Union. Besides males in Soviet territory, controlled by AXIS countries. There were probably older and underage males, that volunteered for the red army. There would also be cases of Soviet women, volunteering to join the red army. Soon, after the red army would have 14,000,000 trained Soviet soldiers.
In order to have so much food, for so many soldiers, who didn’t work on farms. Food had to be heavily rationed for Soviet civilians and soldiers, by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Rations being limits on items. The Soviet Union also had doctors working for soldiers instead of civilians, which meant Soviet civilians were more likely to die of diseases.
Many of the red army soldiers that fought in World War 2, fought because they were legally required to fight in the army. As well as to maintain the Soviet Union, along with its socialism and communism. Soviet soldiers believed, that if Germany conquered the Soviet Union, Germany would take factories and property land owned publicly, by the Soviet governments and then sell or give it to certain people, to own factories and get land lordships. At least some also believed Germany wanted to enslave the Soviet people, which was something that the Soviet government preached to the Soviet people and something that seemed believable due to Germanys harm against civilians. One Soviet soldier said quote, “My father was communist, from the earliest age, he instilled in us, the idea, that the motherland was everything and must be defended."
Generally, culturally Russian red army soldiers, believed that fighting in the war, was helping and serving Russia. Not all red army soldiers were Slavic, as some were from Georgia, Armenia and many Muslim regions.
By October, even outside the battle of Kiev and the battle of Smolensk, Germany captured over 1,000,0000 surrendering Soviet soldiers. All captured Soviet soldiers by Germany and Finland, were sent to prisoner of war camps with conditions of starvation. Out of not wanting to spend much on the food, for the prisoners of war. The Soviet Union also sent captured Finnish soldiers, to prisoner of war camps with conditions of starvation. The Soviet Union sent captured German soldiers, to the gulag slave labour camps.
Also, by October, over 400,000 culturally German people, lived in the eastern Soviet Union. The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, deported them to collectivized farms, that were in other areas of the Soviet Union. This was done, largely based around the belief that many Soviet Germans, might join Germany as soldiers, if Germany captured Soviet areas with them in it.
In October, Romania captured the Ukrainian city Odessa, by Romanian forces sieging Odessa and making the city surrender. Then a bomb exploded on a Romanian military base killing 67 Romanian soldiers. In retaliation, the Romanian forces did a war massacre in Odessa, killing at least 39,000 Jews.
In October, in operation Barbarossa, Germany began the battle of Moscow, near the Soviet Union’s capital city Moscow. Germany was trying to send soldiers to try marching into the city and capturing it. Germany had 2,000,000 soldiers in the battle and the Soviet Union had 1,000,000.
In the battle of Moscow, German and Soviet forces would fight each other in the towns of Briansk and Vyazma. Germany would beat the Soviet forces in those towns and capture them. The forces would counite to fight each other in the battle, with German forces slowly advancing.
In the battle, a General in the Red army, Georgy Zhukov organised for civilians in Moscow, to build forts and trenches around Moscow. When the German forces was next to the forts and trenches, many of them would fight the Soviet Union’s forces. However, 2 sets of German forces went around the forts and trenches. One went around the left of them and one went around the right. Then the 2 sets of Soviet forces, each fought the 2 sets of German forces. The German forces were halted.
Also during the battle, in November, Joseph Stalin did a speech to the Soviet people, through radio and so forth. This speech was about Soviet Union in world war 2. In the speech he lied, that 10x more German soldiers got killed then Soviet soldiers. To try and increase the confidence of Soviet peoples, including Soviet soldiers.
In December, the German forces retreated in the battle of Moscow. The Soviet Union began shooting at the retreating German soldiers. However, almost all of the German soldiers retreated. The Soviet Union had 500,000 soldiers killed or missing. One reason for the Soviet Union won in the battle, was their highly armoured T-34 tanks, in the battle.
The end of the battle of Moscow, was the end of the campaign called operation Barbarossa. However, since Germany captured Kiev, Germany had captured much more Soviet territory. After operation Barbarossa, World War 2 in the Soviet Union, would still go on.
After Operation Barbarossa, Joseph Stalin wanted a short campaign to re-capture all Soviet territory captured by Germany. However, his generals advised agianist the idea, believing it would fail. So Joseph Stalin, then decided not to do the campaign.
Also in December, America joined World War 2, against Japan and Germany, mainly to stop a possible future invasion of America. Japan would also capture the British colonial puppet nation of Malya (Malaysia).
Also in December, Germany had also captured nearly all of the large island of Crimea, through battling Soviet forces. Which is right next to Ukraine and apart of the Soviet Union. So then 28,000 Soviet soldiers battle German forces, in the area in Crimea, Kerch, and capture it. 7,000 Soviet soldiers had been killed in battle in Crimea, in December.
By 1942, the Soviet Union had lost so much territory, including farmland, to their enemies. So, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin made civilian rations lower. This would result in some Soviet civilians, starving to death.
In January 1942, Germany started putting 2,200,000 Ukrainian civilian’s, into slave labour, in Germany. By this stage Russian and Belarusian civilians were in and were being sent to slave labour in Germany. This was to get them to make and get supplies for Germany in the war. This included making weapons, in factories. As well become farmers and workers at non-military factories. Since more German people becoming soldiers meant less German people being farmers and factory workers, making and getting such items for German people. The slaves were not given much food and often starved to death.
Also in January, the Soviet Union sent Soviet forces, in the Rzhev-Vyazma offensive to battle German forces and try recapturing some territory. Territory that was near Moscow and the siege of Leningrad and in between that territory.
Also in January, Soviet forces were sent, to battle some of the German forces sieging Leningrad, in the battle of Lyuban. In May, the Soviet forces lost the battle, with many of them captured, or injured, or killed. 33,000 Soviet soldiers, soon after the battle, failed to retreat and soon got captured by German forces. By then the Soviet Union managed get some of Leningrad's civilian population, to flee the city.
Also in May, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, sent 640,000 soldiers to try to recapture territory in Ukraine, made up of the city Kharkov and around Kharkov. The Soviet soldiers would battle German forces in the battle. In May, the Soviet forces would lose and retreat with 207,000 soldiers captured, injured or killed.
After the battle around Kharkov, German forces invaded some of the Soviet territory around Kharkov, battling Soviet forces. The Soviet forces would lose. Then the German forces circled around 240,000 Soviet soldiers. The Soviet soldiers would surrender and become prisoners of war.
Also in May, the Soviet Union won the Rzhev-Vyazma offensive. One area captured in the campaign was called Demyansk. Germany would send German forces to Demyansk and battle Soviet soldiers, to try and fail to recapture it. The fighting in Demyansk would go on for another 9 months.
By June, German forces, after battling Soviet forces, captured Crimea. Also by June 1942, Japan had captured the Netherlands(Dutch) colony of the Dutch east Indies (Indonesia), the British colony of Burma and American colony of the Philippines, after invading them.
In July, German forces, along with some Italian and Romanian forces, was moving towards Stalingrad. Stalingrad was a Soviet city in state of Russia. The main motive of trying to capture Stalingrad, was that it was named after the Soviet Union’s leader Joseph Stalin. So therefore capturing it would give confidence to German forces and less confidence to Soviet forces. Soviet forces, would battle the enemy forces near Stalingrad, with the Soviet forces losing, with enemy forces still moving towards Stalingrad. The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, refused to evaluate the civilians in Stalingrad. Believing Soviet soldiers would fight more to defend Stalingrad, if there were civilians in the city.
In August, the enemy forces, went next to Stalingrad. Beginning the battle of Stalingrad. Germany planned for more German forces at Stalingrad. However, those forces had a lack of oil, for their army equipment. They were meant to take Soviet oil, after marching on some oil fields. However, before they marched on the oil fields, Soviet forces, destroyed the oil fields.
In the battle, Germany did airstrikes Soviet forces in Stalingrad. Which would kill at least 20,000 Soviet civilians, including teenage and child ones, in the cross fire. Then the enemy forces, would march more into the city and the Soviet forces went to fight the enemy forces.
Both the Soviet and enemy soldiers, fought in the battle of Stalingrad, with much injury and death. However, the German soldiers were not used to the cold Russian winter, making it harder for them to fight. Throughout the battle, Soviet ships in rivers trying to send supplies to Soviet forces, were bombed in German airstrikes. Throughout the battle German forces, sent 10,000s of Russian civilians in Stalingrad, to slave labour camps, to make military supplies.
In November, extra Soviet forces, made up of 1,000,000 Soviet soldiers, came as reinforcements to join the battle of Stalingrad. Soviet air forces and artillery that could target German air forces, was placed at Stalingrad to scare off more German forces, entering the battle. No extra German air forces, would get involved in the battle afterwards.
By 1943, Germany under Adolf Hitler, had started the holocaust, if it hadn't already started with actions like the massacres in operation Barbarossa . The holocaust was a genocide done against Jews in territory controlled by Germany. The holocaust was mostly done by deadly enslavement camps, called concertation camps and execution camps, called extermination camps. Many Soviet Jews in the holocaust were also killed by mass shootings.
One excuse of the holocaust, was the belief that Jews were very inferior to non-Jewish Germans. It was motived by Germany wanting to take property off the Jews, hatred of Jews and believing the Jews could rebel against Germany over its anti-Jew beliefs. These Jews included teenage and child ones. These Jews also included Soviet Jews in Soviet territory controlled by Germany. Jews that were not already killed in war massacres.
In November, extra Soviet forces, made up of 1,000,000 Soviet soldiers, came as reinforcements to join the battle of Stalingrad. Soviet air forces and artillery that could target German air forces, was placed at Stalingrad to scare off more German forces, entering the battle. No extra German air forces, would get involved in the battle afterwards.
By 1943, Germany under Adolf Hitler, had started the holocaust, if it hadn't already started with actions like the massacres in operation Barbarossa . The holocaust was a genocide done against Jews in territory controlled by Germany. The holocaust was mostly done by deadly enslavement camps, called concertation camps and execution camps, called extermination camps. Many Soviet Jews in the holocaust were also killed by mass shootings.
One excuse of the holocaust, was the belief that Jews were very inferior to non-Jewish Germans. It was motived by Germany wanting to take property off the Jews, hatred of Jews and believing the Jews could rebel against Germany over its anti-Jew beliefs. These Jews included teenage and child ones. These Jews also included Soviet Jews in Soviet territory controlled by Germany. Jews that were not already killed in war massacres.
To some degree Gypsie's were also taken to the deadly enslavement and execution camps, which could be interpreted as being a part of the holocaust.
In January, in Ukrainian territory controlled by Germany, Germany would massacre 10,000 Ukrainian Jews, as part of the holocaust.
From January-February, Soviet forces would retake the territory of the destroyed oil fields.
In February, the remining German forces made up of 91,000 soldiers surrendered in Stalingrad to be captured by the Soviet forces, making the Soviet forces win the battle. This defeat for Germany, decreased confidence for Germans, including German soldiers. In the battle 1,100,000 Soviet soldiers got, injured, missing, or killed in the battle. It was at this point, that many historians believe the Soviet Union, was winning the war.
In January, in Ukrainian territory controlled by Germany, Germany would massacre 10,000 Ukrainian Jews, as part of the holocaust.
From January-February, Soviet forces would retake the territory of the destroyed oil fields.
In February, the remining German forces made up of 91,000 soldiers surrendered in Stalingrad to be captured by the Soviet forces, making the Soviet forces win the battle. This defeat for Germany, decreased confidence for Germans, including German soldiers. In the battle 1,100,000 Soviet soldiers got, injured, missing, or killed in the battle. It was at this point, that many historians believe the Soviet Union, was winning the war.