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Hitler was further convinced that Britain would sue for peace once the Germans triumphed in the Soviet Union, [82] and if they did not, he would use the resources gained in the East to defeat the British Empire. [83] We only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down. [84] —
For Hitler, the Soviet capital was secondary, and he believed the only way to bring the Soviet Union to its knees was to defeat it economically. He felt this could be accomplished by seizing the economic resources of Ukraine east of Kiev. [ 21 ]
The failure of Operation Barbarossa reversed the fortunes of Germany, and Stalin was confident that the Allied war machine would eventually defeat Germany. [4] The Soviet Union repulsed Axis attacks, such as in the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Kursk, which marked a turning point in the war.
Russia's president told massed ranks of service personnel on Moscow's Red Square: "You are fighting for the Motherland, for its future, so that no one forgets the lessons of World War 2."
He declared that the war was lost, blaming the generals for the defeat and that he would remain in Berlin until the end and then kill himself. [ 62 ] In an attempt to coax Hitler out of his rage, General Alfred Jodl speculated that General Walther Wenck 's XII Army , which was facing the Americans, could move to Berlin because the Americans ...
Support in Russia for Suvorov's claim that Stalin had been preparing a strike against Hitler in 1941 began to emerge as some archive materials were declassified. Authors supporting the Stalin 1941 assault thesis are Valeri Danilov , [ 55 ] [ 56 ] V.A. Nevezhin , [ 57 ] Constantine Pleshakov , Mark Solonin [ 58 ] [ 59 ] and Boris Sokolov .
The Kremlin on Friday welcomed Donald Trump's comments on Russia being "a war machine" that had defeated Napoleon and Hitler, but said it was not wearing rose-tinted spectacles when it came to the ...
Though the location, plan of attack and timing were determined by Hitler, he blamed the defeat on his General Staff. Unlike Stalin, who gave his commanding generals the liberty to make important command decisions, Hitler's interference in German military matters progressively increased while his attention to the political aspects of the war ...