Based on the almost unbelievable success.......of how fast Nazi G took Western Europe............Hitler had signed a non aggression pact with Franco of Spain as well.................Franco..........a facist dictator of Spain..............key to that code...........Goya garbonzo beans..................F Goya .......a painter from Spain..............Hitler and the German high command must have thought that taking Moscow............and the USSR........which was essentially Russia..........must be easy..........Napoleon........the French emperor.............invaded Russia with 600 000 French troops.......................and got as far as 60 miles from Moscow....................

So the Nazis must have thought that if they attacked with 2 million........which they did........and tanks, artillery..........the German airforce.........the Lutwaffe (sp?)........that they were sure to succeed..........but oddly enough.........even with an army of more than twice of what Napoleon had..........the exact same fate happened to the Germans.......they got close to the gates of Moscow..........60 miles more or less.........but they did not take it.....

The Russian people are not like the Western Europeans..........they are outdoors people..........much like the Americans of the Old West........they are used to dealing with the cold and hardships in general..........thus make far better fighters than the Dutch or the French.............

Invasion of the Soviet Union, June 1941

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Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanent elimination of the perceived Communist threat to Germany, and the seizure of prime land ...

Operation Barbarossa - Wikipedia

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Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, starting Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, ...

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Operation Barbarossa - World War II - HISTORY.com

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By this point German combat effectiveness had reached its apogee; in training, doctrine, and fighting ability, the forces invading Russia represented the finest army to fight in the twentieth century. Barbarossa was the crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a ...

German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact - World War II - HISTORY.com

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On March 15, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, breaking the agreement it had signed with Great Britain and France the year before in Munich, Germany. The invasion jolted British and French leaders and convinced