I am listening to a podcast called Hard Core History by Dan Carlin. The section I'm listening to is called Ghosts of the Ostfront. The Ostfront is the part of russia where hitler stopped his invasion. I've listened to the invasion of moscow, where nazi soldier's boots were frozen to the ground, with no preparation for the winter. Their generals were so sure that moscow would be invaded by the time winter started. They were wrong. Soviet soldiers who had been stationed in siberia were being sent back to moscow, and the other soldiers had no idea that they were there. The Soviet soldiers had skis, and warm winter clothes, but the nazis had assumed that their people were under the same conditions as they were. The soviet tanks and aircraft had been built to withstand the cold.
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