Information on the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (about 1 words)

When the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union broke out, Soviet Red Army soldiers went to the front line continuously. The placard on the tree on the left reads: "Our cause is just. The enemy must be shattered. Victory must belong to us! "

The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union usually refers to the Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany and its European allies during World War II. The period from June 1941 when Germany attacked the Soviet Union to May 1945 when Germany surrendered was an important part of the Second World War.

on September 1st, 1939, Germany attacked Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany, and World War II broke out in an all-round way. In the spring of 1941, the Germans took control of Western Europe, Northern Europe and the Balkans. On June 22, 1941, Germany tore up the Soviet-German Non-aggression Treaty and launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union. 19 divisions from Germany, Finland, Hungary and Romania formed three army groups: North, Central and South, and quickly occupied all Lithuania, most of Latvia and part of Belarus and Ukraine. In October 1941, the Germans invaded Moscow on a large scale, and the Soviet army launched an active defense to destroy a large number of German effective forces, and won the battle of Moscow in January 1942. On November 19, 1942, Soviet troops launched a counterattack in Stalingrad, and on February 2, 1943, they wiped out the besieged Germans. The Battle of Stalingrad was a fundamental turning point in the Soviet-German battlefield and had a decisive influence on the course of the Second World War. In August 1943, the Soviets won the battle of Kursk, and the Germans completely lost their strategic offensive ability and turned to defense. In 1944, the Soviet army launched a strategic general counterattack, recovered all the occupied land through 1 attacks on the German army, and turned its military operations into the territory of Germany and its European allies, forcing Finland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary to withdraw from the war and turn against Germany.

at the beginning of 1945, the Soviet army launched a powerful offensive, invaded Poland and Czechoslovakia, and occupied East Prussia and Silesia. On May 2, 1945, Soviet troops conquered Berlin and forced Germany to surrender unconditionally on May 8.

The Soviet-German battlefield is called the most tragic and bloody battlefield in the 2th century. According to statistics, 8,668,4 Soviet troops died in combat, and more than 6 million Germans and their allies died.

The Soviet-German war had a far-reaching impact on the world anti-fascist battlefield. After the war, most Soviet and Russian scholars and many western scholars believed that if there was no tenacious resistance from the Soviet Union, the outcome of the Second World War would be unpredictable.