"Barbarossa and Its Lessons for the Living" Topic

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Tango01	23 Jun 2016 10:38 p.m. PST
"75 years ago this morning at 0315 Central European Time, the valiant and ruthless German race was thrust into a war of annihilation against the Soviet empire, in what became the dominant theatre in the largest-scale conflict in world history, World War II. Named after Frederick I, the red-bearded King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor in the 12th century known for his military conquests and shrewd leadership, Operation Barbarossa involved an attack in three army groups across what soon became an 1800-mile front from the Baltic to the Caucasus. German war aims, spelled out initially in the Führer's War Directive #21 on December 18, 1940, were fully commensurate with Adolf Hitler's boldness: the Führer sought domination of the entirety of European Russia and the smaller intermediary Soviet states all the way out to the Ural Mountains, including the natural resources and oil-rich regions in the Caspian Basin. While Barbarossa itself only refers to the opening 5 months of the war up to the first Soviet counterattack, this anniversary is better placed as a day of thoughtful reverence for the suffering of all, soldiers and civilian victims, of the entire war in the east. Hence, in remembrance of the spectacular brutality of this conflict, today is an informal holiday in Russia, and in Belarus and Ukraine, too. Known there as the Day of Memory and Sorrow, June 22 commemorates the suffering of the Soviet peoples, up to 30 million of whom perished by some estimates, as well as the destruction of hundreds of cities and towns all the way across Russia to a line from St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) to Moscow to Volgograd (Stalingrad) and down to the Caspian. Given the duration and severity of the conflict, there was no family in the Soviet Union untouched by the war…" More here link Amicalement Armand
jpattern2	24 Jun 2016 5:23 a.m. PST
"The valiant and ruthless German race"? Why not just call them Aryans and be done with it? Real Clear Defense website, that figures.
Tango01	24 Jun 2016 10:37 a.m. PST
(smile) Amicalement Armand
Sudwind	24 Jun 2016 4:15 p.m. PST
Funny, when I kept starting a thread on the 75th anniversary of the campaign, the "bug" hit it every time and folks quipped it wasn't newsworthy or some such nonsense.
nsolomon99	26 Jun 2016 7:07 a.m. PST
The lesson …….? Never attack Russia from the west, it's been tried 3 times now and proven not to work. You do it from the east, in winter, preferably with Mongolian troops, works every time it's been tried that way.
Tango01	26 Jun 2016 1:15 p.m. PST
You have a point my friend… Amicalement Armand