Key stats!!!! Flashcards
Oct 1941
- Nazis within 10 miles of Moscow!
By Dec 1941
2/5 of USSR pop under Nazi control!
USSR produced how many T34 tanks during the war?
80,000 T34 tanks!!
1600km Eastern front! Longest in history!
3.5 million German soldiers in active combat
USSR outproduced Nazis 1942 / 1943
USSR produced 230 tanks / 700 aircraft a month
Military purges
35,000 officials killed, 3/5 marshals, Tukhachevsky dead
Lend and Loan scheme
360,000 trucks, over 15 million pairs of boots. Initially 5% of USSR’s GDP, by end of war - 10%
In 1941 alone…
3 million Soviet soldiers captured by Germans!!
Battle of Kursk
40% of RA man power, 75% of tankage, 3000 miles of trench dug, 400,000 land mines
430,000 disgraced soldiers…
made to walk over mine fields - punishment centres
stalin not seen for 10 days
following Operation Barbarossa
Siege of Leningrad stats!!
Not the proper victory Stalin described it as !!
1 million dead - 1/3 of city’s total population.
Lost 4000 tanks / 3000 aeroplanes
Stalin’s cavalry
3 million horses for battle :(
Women at work
80% of workers in light industry / 80% in agriculture
Huge losses in first 6 months of war!!!
Evidence of initial Nazi success?
Huge losses for USSR: 2.5 million USSR soldiers dead / 3.5 million pow. Including 1 million Russian Jews shot by Nazis.
Nazis occupy Baltic states / White Russia / Ukraine
By Dec 1941, Nazis had driven Russians 600 miles back!!
(But just three years later, the Russians were at the gates of Berlin!)