This resulted in the death of 25 million Soviet citizens, including a million Jews as the first victims of the Holocaust”.Īround 70,000 Soviet cities, towns and villages were destroyed in the Nazi-led invasion. Rather it was an ideological and racist war, a war of destruction and extermination that aimed to kill Jews, enslave the Slavic peoples and destroy communism. Geoffrey Roberts, an Irish-based historian of Soviet history, wrote that the German-Axis assault “was no ordinary military conflict.
Nazi Germany ultimately lost the war but, such was the force of blows the Germans had landed on the Soviet Union, that their invasion would be a principal factor behind the communist state’s eventual collapse in 1991.
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