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Tag : Soviet Union

1942-01-05Soviets at Eupatoria

German forces prevent Soviets from landing troops in Southern Ukraine

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1941-12-05Moscow Winter

Eighty-eight Soviet divisions, shielded by a blizzard, attack sixty-seven German divisions spread along a five hundred mile front. German forces, ill equipped to deal with the Russian winter, are pushed back.

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1941-11-07Armenia Sunk

Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimeas hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.

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1941-11-06Stalin Address

Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.

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1941-10-301942-07-04Siege of Sevastopol

Despite numerous setbacks and high casualties, with the help of highly effective aerial bombardment (to make up for a shortage in artillery), Axis forces capture the port city.

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1941-10-03Oryol Occupied

Oryol is occupied by Wehrmacht troops. It would not be liberated until the 5th of August 1943, after being almost completely destroyed during the Battle of Kursk.

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1941-09-08Lenningrad Encircled

The last land connection to the besieged city was severed when Germans troops reached Lake Ladoga at Orekhovets. The city would remained under siege for 872 days.

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1941-08-16Mykolaiv Falls

Troops from Army Group South capture Soviet naval base in the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv.

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1941-08-081941-10-16Siege of Odessa

It took 73 days and 93,000 casualties for the Romanian army and elements of the German 11th army to take Odessa.

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1941-07-151941-08-08Uman

The German encirclement of the 6th and 12th Soviet armies. This occured during the initial offensive operations of Rundstedt's Army Group South during Operation Barbarossa.

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