The+Soviet+Union

The Soviet Union is a truly remarkable force. It started off as a rag-tag force of maybe concripts forced into the army and all the other service. By the end of the war however, they were a fighting force that could destroy anything in their path, partly because of the massive amount of materials they could pour into their battles but also because of the training they received, which was more or less on par with British and American standards. Anyway, the Soviet Union was invaded in the year 1941 by the Germans. The German attack surprised the Soviets greatly, and pushed them all the way back to their capital. Hwever, they Germans could not crack the final Soviet line of defense and were eventually pushed back to their own borders. The key victory that turned the tables on the Germans on the Eastern Front was the Battle of Stalingrad. In this battle, the elite German 6th army was wiped clean off the Earth, the troops either captured of dead. This was a great morale booster to the Soviets and perhaps the force that drove them to mount wave after wave of offensives towards Berlin, towards total victory.