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Many will say that Hitler's decision to attack the Soviet Union in June 1941 was his biggest mistake, plunging him into a brutal war of attrition in which Stalin's Red Army was ultimately victorious. In the first continuation of the special about Operation Barbarossa (and there will be two more), we deal with the reasons and context that convinced the Nazi dictator to attack the USSR, and we also analyze the Wehrmacht's preparations for the attack, as well as the (insufficient) preparations of the Soviets for the war. We also take a look at the relationship between the forces of the two armies, two powers in fact, just before the start of the operation. All this is explained by our expert interlocutor Matija Blaće from the Codex Militaria YouTube channel. mail: [email protected] photo: Profimedia