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Operation Barbarossa

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Hearts of Iron IV - Operation Barbarossa

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Operation Barbarossa and fate of the USSR. WWII

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Operation Barbarossa

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Operation Barbarossa Time-Lapse Map - Eastern Front 1941-1942 - WW2

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs, especially Poles, as a slave-labour force for the Axis war effort, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories.