HI123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Case Blue, 41, Deep Operation
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Surviving barbarossa: by oct 1941, the germans looked as if they had victory, the enormous police powers of the soviet state. The state was a totalitarian regime that was as brutal as nazi. After the invasion began, the soviets used their police to reinforce their efforts. The secret police the nkjb was put in control over the different sectors of the russian red army. Any attempt to withdraw from the war was met with ruthlessness: the patriotic commitment and willingness of self-sacrifice of ordinary. 2 million russian citizens were sentenced to the gulag. They were motivate to throw out the invaders. Material explanations of soviet victory are ever quite convincing. During the crisis of operation barbarossa, the red army raised. 194 new divisions (which had about 10000 men each) and 84 brigades. The scale of this was unseen before. These divisions were poorly armed and barely trained. They were simply mobilized and sent to confront the panzer divisions.
