Red Army Faction

From July 1942 to February 1943, Soviet forces defended the city of Stalingrad from Nazi attack. The battle began during the summer offensive of 1942, Nazi Army groups A an B had already pushed past Stalingrad to take oil fields in south west Russia, when Hitler ordered Stalingrad be attacked (Trueman, n.d.). “Some historians believe that Hitler ordered the taking of Stalingrad simply because of the name of the city and Hitler's hatred of Joseph Stalin. For the same reason Stalin ordered that

Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin was one of the biggest mass murderers of the twentieth century. From the purges in the Red Army to forced relocations, Stalin had the blood of millions on his hands. This essay is not going to debate the fact that this was indeed a brutal and power hungry individual, because he was indeed just that. I will on the other hand show you that through his way of governing the Soviet Union, he actually saved mother Russia from the German invasion in World War Two through his

Joseph Stalin was born Ioseb Djugashvili in Gorgi, Georgia. He was the third son of Yekaterina and Vissarion Djugashvili, and the only one to survive past infancy. His parents had a violent marriage, with Vissarion beating hos wife and son. His parents had very different ambitions for Stalin, with his mother encouraging him to become a Russian Orthodox priest and his father believing that a working class life was good enough for Stalin. When his father returned from Tiflis to bring Stalin back to

of independence to women of this era. Besides working on the home front, some women also volunteered for war service and join a various amount of women’s branches in the armed forces; such as the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, which eventually became the Women’s Army Corp (WAC). The Women’s Army Corps was the first time women were given a full military rank. Women pilots also came about, these women were in an organization called Women’s Air Force Service Pilots (WASP). The WASP was not easy to be

afternoon” [1]. However, during the end of January 1945, his life took a turn for the worse. The Russian Red Army was quickly advancing on the town, so his family had to flee in a small car to a relative’s house in Dresden. A few days later, on February 13, 1945, only days after their stay in Dresden, one of the most disastrous air bombing attacks of WW II decimated the city. As Blobel describes it, “the red night sky reflected the raging firestorm that destroyed the jewels of this once great city” [1].

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and for the Allied Powers in 1939 it was a desperate time. The Second World War was not going in there favor. The German war machine has ripped through Poland and moves on to the rest of Europe. Part of the reason why Germany can start a war to control the world is that one of the world's biggest superpowers and neighbor, the Soviet Union, was completely silent in the war. In 1941 things are looking up for Nazi Germany, so Germany planed one of the biggest

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon Throughout time, history has been manipulated and changed by those who write it. No one person is ever truly objective and by that respect, no historian is unbiased. Those who write history often have been the victors of battle, or swayed to one side of a story with a bias often in their favour. With the introduction of photography, one could assume that history could not be re-written, yet since its birth, as with history

In the Book, Leningrad; State of Siege by Michael Jones, it tells a story about the surrounding of the Soviet city from September 8th 1941 until January 27th 1944. For a total of 872 days, Nazi Germany and Finish armies surrounded the city and chocked them of anything getting out or in. Hitler wanted to starve the citizens until they eventually would surrender. Jones show through the beginning, during and the end of the siege through various mean to get the idea of how they survived. Jones best use

An example of this representation is in the book Snowball, one of the main pigs symbolizes Leon Trotsky who was the leader of the Red Army in the Russian Revolution. As an essay is generally a piece of writing where the author gives its own argument or perspective openly it would have been even more dangerous for Orwell to write Animal Farm in that structure. Essays also use more technical

Army Group South under Field Marshal Fedor von Bock would undertake the offensive. On June 28, 1942, operations began with significant German victories, But Germany lost the war because Hitler was stubborn and made poor decisions, was not prepared for the