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The Battle Of Moscow: Operation Barbarossa

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The Battle of Moscow was a series of operations which took place in defense of Soviet Moscow from the German Army. After the initial resounding success in Operation Barbarossa, the German Army advanced within a few hundred miles of Moscow and were ready for their next offensive, Operation Typhoon. The ensuing battle was fought between October 2, 1941 and January 7, 1942 between the Soviet Army under Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky with around 1,250,000 men and the German Army under Field Marshal Fedor Von Bock and Field Marshal Albert Kesselring with around 1,000,000 men.[1] The German advance was going smoothly, till the October rains and melting snow made a quagmire of mud in which thousands of German trucks and tanks

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