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20 May, 1941. As the German paratroopers were jumping over Crete in order to crush the last Greek resistance against the Axis Powers, Stalin says "Go!" to Operation Thunderstrom: three million Red Army effectives, including infantry, motorized and pilots, crossed the Soviet borders in Poland and toward Romania, breaking the German defenses and advancing toward Könisberg, Warsaw, Odessa and the major Romanian oil fields.

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  • 20 May, 1941. As the German paratroopers were jumping over Crete in order to crush the last Greek resistance against the Axis Powers, Stalin says "Go!" to Operation Thunderstrom: three million Red Army effectives, including infantry, motorized and pilots, crossed the Soviet borders in Poland and toward Romania, breaking the German defenses and advancing toward Könisberg, Warsaw, Odessa and the major Romanian oil fields.
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  • 20 May, 1941. As the German paratroopers were jumping over Crete in order to crush the last Greek resistance against the Axis Powers, Stalin says "Go!" to Operation Thunderstrom: three million Red Army effectives, including infantry, motorized and pilots, crossed the Soviet borders in Poland and toward Romania, breaking the German defenses and advancing toward Könisberg, Warsaw, Odessa and the major Romanian oil fields. Stalin had been preparing this offensive since the defeat in the Winter War, ordering the Army to modernize and to prepare a good offensive plan. Once Hitler had broken the ice by invading Poland, the door was open for exporting communism by force in Europe. Stalin succeeded in eastern Poland and the Baltic republics, but failed miserably in Finland. Now, the Red Army was ready. Hitler was distracted in Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, plus defending themselves from constant bombings on the homeland by Britain. According to Stalin's readings, Hitler would surely come the next year to attack the Soviet Union, so this was also a preventive strike, before German power grew too much. What Stalin did not know was that Germany was already preparing their own invasion of Russia starting in one month, therefore having an unusual concentration of troops near the border. This was actually good, as once the surprised defenses were surpassed, the Red Army could move more easily, and as they were preparing an attack, they did not have a good defense strategy. But despite any superiority Stalin saw in papers of the Red Army over the Wehrmacht, Stalin did not yet have the right strategy for a mobile war. By the end of June, Bacau and Könisberg had fallen; Bucharest, Warsaw and Danzig were besieged, and the German armies were regrouping.
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