Battle of Moscow
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The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and J
Soviet anti-aircraft gunners on the roof of the Hotel Moskva
German armored column advances on the Moscow front, October 1941.
Moscow women dig anti-tank trenches around their city in 1941.
Anti-tank obstacles in a Moscow street, October 1941
Eastern Front (World War II)
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The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War, or the German–Soviet War, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union and Pol
Battle of Moscow
…The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort thwarted Germany's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest…
Semyon Timoshenko and Georgy Zhukov in 1940
German soldiers in a Panzer III tank; Kalmyk steppe north of Stalingrad, September 1942
German infantry in Russia, June 1943
The South Western Front (Ukrainian) on 22 June 1941