==Star Media - Soviet Storm WWII in the East Series 1 (2011) Part 1 Operation Barbarossa== [[http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?showtopic=84661|Star Media - Soviet Storm WWII in the East Series 1 (2011) Part 1 Operation Barbarossa]] {{fhd.jpg?45|}} {{https://forums.mvgroup.org/release.images/DocFreak08/2391017.jpg?200&nolink|}} On 22nd June 1941, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa--the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia. Four million troops, backed by 19 panzer divisions, fought their way east, confident of total victory within a just few short months. They were wrong. Instead of collapsing, the Soviet Union held strong and--under the utterly ruthless leadership of Josef Stalin--fought a savage, four year war of attrition on a scale the world had never before witnessed. Over 30 million people would be slaughtered in the horror, most of them civilians. Four out of every ten German soldiers to be killed in WWII would die fighting the Russians. The Red Army suffered ten times as many dead as the Western Allies combined. Hitler and Stalin were prepared to accept losses on any scale in the pursuit of victory. Soviet Storm tells the complete story of the War on the Eastern Front, profiling the epic campaigns and battles, revealing the tactics employed by both sides and exposing the true horrors of a conflict almost unimaginable in its sheers cruelty and depravity. Here were the greatest civilian losses the largest battle and the biggest tank battle--Kursk--the world has ever seen. This was war on a scale and ferocity never seen before as Hitler and Stalin battled for the future of the world. Soviet Storm WWII In The East tells the incredible stories from the Second World War's biggest and bloodiest theatre of war. Told from an unprecedented Russian perspective the episodes explore some of the most devastating battles of World War II from the Red Army's catastrophic encirclement at Kiev in 1941 to the notorious Rzhev meat-grinder. The series also looks at the dramatic recovery of the Soviet air force from it's almost total destruction in the first days of the war, the role of Baltic Sea Fleet submarines, the brutal partisan war fought against a backdrop of Nazi genocide, and the crucial role of Soviet secret intelligence. Across 18 episodes the biggest battles, the key personalities and the decisive weapons of the war are examined in depth including legendary tanks like the T-34 and the Tiger, and less well-known Soviet aircraft such as the Ilyushin 2 flying tank or the superb Lavochkin La-5 fighter. From the German invasion of 22nd June 1941 through to the brutal fighting outside the gates of Moscow, the savage street-fighting of Stalingrad, and the long, bloody road to Berlin, this is an epic retelling of the world s most devastating conflict. Especially produced to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa with unrivalled access to rare and and previously unseen combat film from military archives, Soviet Storm WW2 in the East is by far the most detailed and extensive film history of the war on the Eastern Front ever released. {{https://forums.mvgroup.org/release.images/DocFreak08/vlcsnap-2020-09-27-09h53m11s376.jpg?200&nolink }} **Part 1 Operation Barbarossa** The Battle of Britain is over. The Luftwaffe has been driven to exhaustion, and Germany suffers its first major defeat. Even though Britain remains undefeated, it is so isolated that Hitler has no concerns about turning his attention East. In April 1940 Hitler signed the operation Barbarossa, and heavy war machinery started making its way to the boundaries of the USSR. Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the USSR, takes the Soviets completely by surprise and the Red Army suffers terrible casualties. However, the very first battles in June 1941 at the border at the Brest Fortress, near Kiev and Minsk broke the German design of Blitzkrieg, a 'lightning war'. Massive losses sustained by the retreating Red Army could well be explained but the mistakes had to be paid for by both the soldiers and generals. In the beginning of 1941 the political situation was tense and uncertain for the USSR leadership. Just a few officers of the Soviet Command doubted that there would be war with Germany. But what was the timing? Really valuable information of Germany's plans regarding the Soviet Union is drowning in the huge mass of reports from Soviet intelligence officers. The non-aggression pact and the contradictions in the information obtained by the intelligence create a false illusion that the war on the USSR territory is still far away. However, in the military leadership of the Third Reich, a secret directive was signed in December 1940 and the development of the Barbarossa plan was in full swing. According to it, fast powerful panzer groups would dash into the territory of the USSR, and all Soviet military power should be destroyed at lightning speed. ==See Also== \\ ==Reference== !!In cas you want to know more...!! {{wp>Operation Barbarossa}} \\ ==Trailer== ,,Full Version Available Upon Request,, {{ youtube> }} \\ ==Full Version== \\ ,,The availability of this link might be uncertain!,,\\ ,,Full version is available upon request.,,\\ ,,Episode One Shown Here,,\\ \\ {{ youtube>6CerdjvePsg }} \\ \\ \\ {{ youtube>hAVaH_-gDX0 }} \\ \\ {{tag>History Biography Germany Adolf_Hitler Joseph_Stalin Operation_Barbarossa Kiev Sevastopol Moscow Leningrad USSR Star_Media SER Star_Media_-_Soviet_Storm_WWII_in_the_East_Series_1_(2011) FF WP 2020 ar09/20 Name}} \\