(Task) An Invasion, An Operation : Barbarossa. [Text]

With the hands of Mohamad Rais Surianta Kusumah and Diaz Jeisa Rakhmat

ReCitation

In early morning of the 22nd of June 1941 during WWII over 3 million German military personnel with thousands of war machines and military transportation cross the German-Russion border and invade an unprepared Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union weren't expecting Nazi-Germany to invade the Soviet Union because of the nonaggression pact they signed and them believing that Nazi-Germany didn't want a two front war even with France defeated, due to these reasons the Soviet Union didn't invest to much in their borders with Nazi-Germany.

In the initial attack the Soviet Union's border defence were easily crushed by German forces due to the Soviet Union's border defence force being outnumbered, outgunned, and outmatched by the more prepared and skilled German forces. The German's momentum didn't stop there while the Soviet Union were reorganizing themselves the German forces were gaining victory after victory, they managed to capture multiple Red army divisions (though most of the Soviet soldiers were able to eventually escape) and destroy even more, as they were getting deeper in Soviet territory they took many cities, important military locations, industrial factories, and large farmlands, but these victories weren't easy or as rewarding as Hitler and his generals thought.

As the German forces were getting deeper in Soviet territory the Soviet forces were getting more fierced, better organized, and bigger in number as the Soviet Union started to conscript in mass and throwing their soldiers in large numbers at the German forces to overwhelm them with their now much larger army. The Soviet Union also started to employ scorhced-earth tactics, they also moved many of their weatern industrial factories and moved them to the eastern side of the Soviet Union so they can produce without the worry of the German forces, these tactics were used to slow the German forces advancement.

The Soviet's tactics work against the German forces as their previous momentum started to slow down while the German forces were still winning many battles their supply started to diminished as Hitler and his generals underestimated the Soviet Union military power and their willingness to win, as the German forces were gaining more Soviet territory they were hoping to more supplies but they were surprised to see what used to be fertile farmlands burned and many factories empty, while they still gained some supplies it was less then what was expected.

While the German forces advancement were slowing down and their supplies lessening, they were still getting deeper in Soviet territory and they were closing in on the Soviet Union's capital Moscow but they were also getting close to winter season. And at the end Russian winter prove to be faster and deadlier then the German forces and they were forced to halt their advancement and prepare for winter due to many of their soldiers dying to frostbite or fallen ill because the lack of winter clothing, this is because Hitler believed that his army could defeat The Soviet Union before winter.

While the German forces were preparing for winter the Soviet Union were already prepared for a counteroffensive. The Soviet Union brought in Siberian troops, who are soldiers trained to fight in cold weather, and their factories in the east already mass produced weapon, ammunition, and other war machines for a large army. With the preparation complete the Soviet forces begin their counteroffensive against a now weaken and  under prepared  German force and pushed them out of the Soviet territory begin their own offensive against Nazi-Germany in their territory eventually reaching the German capital ending WWII.

Citations

Royde-Smith, John Graham. “Operation Barbarossa.” Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 23 Aug. 2019, www.britannica.com/event/Operation-Barbarossa.

Wikipedia, Staff. “Operation Barbarossa.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 Mar. 2020, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa.

Journal

Welp,.
It was fun,(the project not but the)
Working with Rais.
He seemed to know about his stuff,
and to be honest,
I wouldn't know about this Operation we've rephrased.
If not because of him that is.
Thank you for helping me on this task.

Thx for reading.
- Diaz