Ex. XV p. 29
1. Hitler's aim was always the crushing of the Soviet Union.
2. Before attacking the USSR the nazis got together, according to Hitler, " The biggest concentration of troops in world history".
3. On June 22 1941, the nazis Germany attack the Soviet Union.
4. The nazi troops as distnct from the Soviet men and officers had quite a lot of experience in waging modern warfare.
5. The factor of surprise attack was on their side.
6. When the flames of the unprecedentedly bloody war was unleashed by the nazis were already raging in Russia, Hitler admitted to his entourage: " On June 22 we opend a door, but didn't know what was behind it".
7. However , Halder, one of the Wehrmacht leaders, had already written in his diary in August, at the peak of the German offensive: " The general situation demonstrates even more clearly and lusidly that we have underestimated the Russian colossus.
8. In 1941 the Soviet troops stoped the offensive of the German nazis to Moscow.
9. Battle of Stalingrad 1942-1943 wich changed the entire course of World War ll.
10. After the battle in Kursk curve in July 1943 it be came cleare, that the blows , on the nazi, was so destructive, that they would never be as they were again.
11. In 1942 the Soviet enterprises gave the Army nearly 100 percent more planes and more tanks and artillery pieces thanGermany's industrial base produced.
12. This fantastic productivity was explained by the people's selflessness and by the strength of the people'sspirit and the leaders of the Soviet comunist party and the Soviet gavernment.
13. Absolutely unity multinational of the Soviet people- another reason, why our country didn't collapse under Wehrmacht's blows.
14. Having won in May 1945 the war against fashist Germany, the Soviet Army show , that behaind the