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Salle 5 - Résistance armée
June–August 41

Starting in late October 1941, Moscow was transformed into a fortress: 250,000 women and teenagers dug 8,000 km of trenches and anti-tank ditches.

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Photo, 1941, Moscow © from *Russia Besieged*, United States Information Agency

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5.1 The Nazi Invasion of the USSR: Toward World War II

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1941

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A concentration of German vehicles and tanks in Poland on the eve of Operation Barbarossa (June 1941).

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German soldiers struggling to advance toward Moscow and battling “General Winter” in December 1941).

German troops crossing the Soviet border with a cannon during Operation Barbarossa (June 22, 1941).

Handwritten report by Joseph Epstein to the Communist International (June 1941).