ocr: Index Second World War D-Day on the Exit Help Back Russian front: 1941-1945 "Operation Barbarossa" was launched on. June 22, 1941. The German divisions headed east with their Panzers and, reaching Leningrad (St. Petersburg), besieged the city for two years. The Germans also occupied the Ukraine, Bookmark Russia's breadbasket, and reached as far as. the Don and Volga from the Crimea. The Russian winter slowed down the war, but in the spring of 1942, the Soviets halted the enemy advance, sacrificing * - - Stalingrad Volgograd),which was razed. Previous Next
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