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Great Patriotic war - Coggle Diagram
Great Patriotic war
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Stalin's role
Positive
The Red army recapture cities, that the Germans had taken.
This helped Stalin gain 100,000 German prisoners
The Red army were strong in battle for example, Kharkov, Poland recaptured Minsk from Germany
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Centralised government + rapid industrialization meant it made it easier to keep up with war production
Negative
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Relied too much on the Nazi-Soviet pact, which meant that when the Germany invaded they were not prepared
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1st phase - This was a defensive phase, this was due to a German aggression that had been focused on defending their territory such as taking Minsk,
2nd phase - This was a counteroffensive phase from 1942 to 1943 when the Soviet Union began pushing back against the German forces
3rd phase - was the most offensive phase from 1944 to 1945 when the Soviet Union launched major offensives that led to German defeat.