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Soviet Major--General I.Y. Pretov and his band of 32,000 soldiers set up a network of defenses at the fortress in Sevastopol. In December 1941 Soviets counterattack in a attempt to gain back territory. Stalin planned to attack Germany from the rear in July 1941 a few weeks after the Axis invasion of Soviet Union.

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Hitler invaded the Soviet Union June 1941 attempting to seize Leningrad. They lost two and a half million men trying to protect Leningrad. Stalin was not ready for the war. September 1941 2 and a half year siege of Leningrad began. The civilians ate two pieces of bread a day in an attempt to save food. They refuse to fall to the Russians. Lost 26.6 million people to the war.

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The victories were the annexation of Poland, Finland, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Alliance with Hitler turned into the invasion of the Soviet union by capturing Leningrad. Stalin was unprepared and the Soviet Union lost two and a half million soldiers.Commander Zhukov organized the counterattack against the exhausted Germans. They used the scorching earth policy.

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They moved to Leningrad, so the German can face the cold harsh weather conditions. They used the scorch earth policy so that the Germans did not obtain any resources they needed.

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The relations between the Soviet Union and the United States was strained before World War 2. The United States - Soviet Union alliance of 1914 - 1945 was marked by a great degree of cooperation and it was essential to securing the defeat of Nazi Germany.