Marsh Is.#282 Nazis Invade Russia - 1991 Imperforate Mint Issue

June 22, 1941 The Non-Aggression Pact signed by Germany and Russian in August 1939 was shattered when 3 million German troops swept into the Soviet Union. With the Nazi blitzkrieg advancing more than 50 miles a day, the Russian army neared a state of collapse. By mid-September, Leningrad was under siege and Kiev was under German control. Were it not for early autumn rains, which turned dirt roads into quagmires, Hitler's juggernaut would have quickly captured Moscow. With the German army slowed by the weather, the Russians had time to increase fortifications around their capital. Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, a major tactical blunder, also allowed the struggling British to regroup their forces. In the end, Hitler's war machine was delayed by the Russian army and defeated by the worst winter in Russian history!

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