Red Army

From the Wehrmacht, to the Luftwaffe and the navy all were used for Hitler’s advantage. And Operation Barbarossa is culmination of these tactics put into one directive, as it includes and discusses the roles of each department within the army, with air force, navy, and defence force and their specified roles, but also covers foreign policies by outlining the plan hide the intent of attacking, and strategically focusing the luftwaffe and and ground forces is the implementation of…

aggressive role. Time was on Russia 's side. Strike sooner than later.(North pg.8A)This supports my reason Germany couldn’t fight a two front war so instead the germans still decided to attack even earlier than before causing even more weakness in the army. North also quotes While the initial success of Barbarossa had been significant, the Germans failed to subdue the Soviet Union by the time the first snows fell in November 1941. The worsening weather made combat operations difficult for the…

He had a big impact in persuading the non-Russian population to support Lenin and the Bolsheviks. After Lenins death, Stalin took over the Soviet army and feared that there were enemies in his own country. He took action in imprisoning and executing millions of “enemies of the Soviet Union.” During the same time, World War 2 was just starting up. Stalin was able to avoid World War 2 by signing a…

an outstanding track athlete, and Louie became just that. Louie qualified for the Olympics in Germany and he finished eighth and went on to set a record in the final lap of his race. Following this, Louie enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was a bombardier. Louie and his fellow army men were sent on a mission to search for an…

Norman Naimark argues in Stalin’s Genocides that the dekulakization, the Holodomor, attacks on enemy nationalities, and the purges of 1937-38 purges should all be classified as the “crime of crimes”: genocide. Currently the four events are simply viewed as massacres or mass killings of a gargantuan scale. He goes further to assert that it was Stalin alone who facilitated and enabled these genocides to occur. By reclassifying them as genocide, Naimark hopes that Stalin’s crimes will finally get…

Machiavelli, a Renaissance philosopher, had an ideal image for a ruler as he discusses in his book, The Prince. The perfect prince should institute fear, punish the criminals, and know how to handle the hate. However, the prince must also have the qualities of cleverness, wiseness, and to be manipulative. Joseph Stalin, a ruler of the USSR, is often compared to Machiavelli’s idea of a leader. Stalin used tactics to institute fear, control his population, and control others, just like Machiavelli…

Operation Barbarossa. The planning of the operation was full of shortfalls and overestimations, meaning the German army wasn 't properly prepared and were unable to successfully invade. The German war method of Blitzkrieg failed with help of the Russian Winter and poor preparation by Hitler’s officials. Stalin’s ‘Scorched Earth’ policy contributed to the failure by forcing the German army to be solely dependant on shipments from Germany, which…

The communists during the Russian Revolution believed that human nature is inherently good, and the government is what causes people to do wrong. Yet, during that period in communist Russia millions of people died as a result of Stalin’s purges. Also, in 1945 the German regime was revealed to the world, Auschwitz and all its horror was released. Both totalitarian governments, and we are meant to believe human nature is essentially good. This was the context in which George Orwell wrote his book,…

Horror by Paranoia In late 1934, Stalin launched a campaign of political terror, otherwise know as the Great Purge. After Lenin’s death in 1924 Stalin maneuvered his way up the political ranks until he became the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (History.com Staff). Under his leadership came a period of terror across Russia. The Great purge, 1934 to 1939, was an unjust era of false persecution, high police surveillance, suspicion of saboteurs…

This paper addresses a trial which took place in March of 1938 in the Soviet Union. The defendants are Grigorii Petrovich Neposedov and Fyodor Mochulsky, who were accused of being enemies of the people. The trial occurs as part of the Great Purge. Neposedov was the director of a factory that processed lumber. According to the prosecution, he deliberately broke all sort of laws, stole from the state, embezzled funds, and made shady deals in order to meet his production quota. In 1937 he was…