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Loading...Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East
Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East is an eighteen-part series that recounts Russia’s epic military role on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. It begins with the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941, known as Operation Barbarossa, and concludes with the Red Army’s million-plus-man march on Berlin in the final week of April 1945, when a defeated Hitler ordered a mixture of Nazi Youth, members of the People’s Army, and German combat veterans to stage a last stand against the Allies.
Soviet Storm is unique among most WW2 documentaries in that it discusses the war from a Russian perspective. The USSR lost ten times as many soldiers as any of the Western Allies, due to engagements such as the catastrophic Battle of Kiev and the three-year ‘meat grinder’ siege of Rzhev.
