How the Soviet Union Won the War

BESTSELLER BY MARK SOLONIN! Three weeks after the start of the operation, German generals could state that the first task set before them according to the Barbarossa plan — the main forces of the Russian troops were to be destroyed in bold operations through deep, rapid deployment of tank wedges — was mostly accomplished. Two-thirds of the distance from the western border to Leningrad and Moscow had been covered… And thus, the war that began in this way ended in Berlin. The first creator of the great turning point was Adolf Hitler. The greatest criminal and sadist seemed not to be a clinical idiot, yet the list of insane mistakes he made in '41 continues to amaze… If Hitler's suicidal stupidity allowed the Soviet Union to avoid a rapid defeat in the summer of '41, and the involvement of allies helped endure in '42–'43, then it was Stalin who turned these favorable circumstances into final victory… The miracle weapon that brought victory in the war was created in advance, tested, refined, and reproduced in unprecedented quantities. And it worked, even at the brink of destruction — it worked! Mark Solonin