Within just a few months of Operation Barbarossa beginning, the invading Germans had reached Moscow. This looked to be a blow that The Soviet Union would never recover from. But then, in the 13th hour, aided by the freezing Soviet winter, Stalin led his nation in an unbelievable comeback that would see them steamroll towards Berlin.

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