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"Getting close this place, troops used to say: 'We are stepping into hell.' And after spending a couple of days here, they say: 'No, this isn't hell, this is ten times worse than hell.'" - Soviet general Vasily Chuikov World Warfare II was fought over a range unlike anything before or since in history, and the unfathomable casualty matters are attributable in large solution to the carnage inflicted between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during Hitler's invasion of Russia and Stalin's needy defense. The invasion came up in 1941 carrying out a nonaggression pact agreed upon between your two in 1939, which allowed Hitler to target his attention on the western and never have to get worried about an harm from the eastern forward. While Germany was concentrating on the western, the Soviet Union dispatched large contingents of troops to the border region between your two countries, and Stalin's plan to take place in Poland and the Baltic States angered Hitler. By 1940, Hitler seen Stalin as a major threat and had made the decision to invade Russia: "Throughout this competition, Russia must be disposed of...Planting season 1941. The quicker we smash Russia the better." (Hoyt, p. 17) The surprise attained by the German invasion in 1941 allowed their armies to move forward rapidly across a remarkably wide forward, but once winter set in, the two factors needed to dig in and brace for German sieges of Russian metropolitan areas. In the planting season of 1942, Germany once more made inroads toward Stalingrad, Stalin's own pet city. And in addition, he ordered which it be held no real matter what. There is more than vanity at stake though. Stalingrad was all those things stood between Hitler and Moscow.
