On June 22, 1941, over four million troops of National Socialist Germany and its vassal states began a massive invasion of the Soviet Union along an 1,800-mile front. It was the largest-scale invasion in history, and it met immediate success. The Soviets, their command decimated by Stalin’s purges and lulled into complacency by the Molotov-Ribbentrop … Continue reading On this day in 1941