The Unknown War is an American 20-part series that documents the World War II conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Today, SouthFront shares the second part of the series, titled “The Battle for Moscow.” This part explorers the Nazi attack on the Soviet capital, which began early in October of 1941.
It covers key events from Joseph Goebbels falsely announcing the fall of Moscow, to the preparations to defend the city, to the historic November 7 October Revolution Day celebration and the following counter-offensive by the Red Army.
This part of the series also highlights Zhukov’s efforts during the battle, the fierce resistance put up by Red Army cadets and the heavy losses Nazi forces sustained on their failed attempt to capture the Soviet capital.
By December, the Red Army had pushed Nazi forces some 125 kilometers away from Moscow. The battle would come to an end with a decisive Soviet victory in January of 1942.
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remedy:. kill all the bankers!… and those in government they manipulate and control!… once this happens moscow will be made whole again!!!
correction , the earth and heaven will be whole again .
derp derp?
russia would be a german province right now if usa hadn’t saved their sorry azzes…
the germans had already lost the chance to take the soviet union by the end of the fighting around smolensk in 1941. the usa was still doing its level best at that time to support the nazi war machine.
and there wouldn’t be one k*ke left alive today. what a terrible situation that would be.
the west should’ve let hitler take russia…heheheh
the whole point of the anglo-american hitler program was to make sure that germany and russia did not end up in a single economic bloc. thanks for derping.
in the battle for moscow germany had a pincer movement facing moscow but what they didn’t realise was that russia withdrew its armies from eastern russia to fight for moscow . the germans had 130,000 soldiers suffering from frostbite but zhukov was given charge of the army instead of stalin and that too changed things.
i was blocked from posting more information on russia beating off the german advance on moscow i just don’t understand sf,s own strategy ?????
if you’re a bona fide commentator, you’re liable for censoring. trolls and d*pshits get a free pass.
i can only come to the conclusion that you are correct and therefore sf is a website punchbag for the west ,if so there is no point in me posting here as its not a serious website. i have many original historical books written by historians of repute on russia pre revolution to the 1950,s .
put the author’s names up. always good to have a reference.
sf is a russsian propaganda/narrative outlet so they will naturally censor those critical of that narrative. its mainly articles that involve ukraine and the russian side they do it. its quite obvious. other articles in the middle east dont have that censorship. some that invole syria did not allpw you to name the leader and the leader to the north
yes japans dow against the united states and that the soviet union with drew those divisions to moscow pushed back the german advance. however moscow could have been taken in 1942. as the weather became better and heavy rail way artillery and cannons could have been shipped in.
but ah fired the commander in chief von brauchitsch and decided he was smarter going all in ob the caucasus
that overextended the already streched german supply lines. and the fact they split up in 2 army groups and went into the caucasus instead of fortifying the northern flank as originally planned spelled disaster. the encirclement only happend in november at stalingrad a few months after ah fired chief of staff franz halder who was keeping the whole cross branch organized.
the germans had no oil. they had to drive on the caucasus, and they failed.
he went into the caucasus as he wanted full control over the oil fields it contained which was more of a priority to him than capturing moscow and in doing so weakened his own forces the commander disagreed with him and so was releaved of duty .sf labels this article ” unknown ” it certainly isn’t to me.
isn’t that suspicious that ussr knew that japan won’t start that war aginst them? wasn’t it suspicious why the heck they would attack pearl harbour anyways? just asking.
that may be so but at the time stalin thought of leaving moscow but didn’t but if your country is in a life and death situation wouldn’t you redirect some of your army to the more serious national emergency ? stalin was using war strategy but it was his commanders who urged him to do so .
i am getting more intelligent answers here on sf than the usual nonsense that sf seems to like.