The Unknown War is an American 20-part series that documents the World War II conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Today, SouthFront shares the fourth part of the series, titled “To the East.” This part tells the story of the mass migration of western Soviet citizens and industries eastward as a result of the Nazi German invasion at the start of the war.
In the first six months of the war, about 1,500 major factories were moved to safety in the east. Eighteen million workers, employees and their families were transported with the factories. This was done mainly using railroads, which were under constant attack by Nazi bombers.
The Soviet workers, including women, challenged the harsh conditions in the Urals, Central Asia and Siberia, building up the new factories. In total, about 2000 new factories were built in the Urals and Siberia during the war years.
Design bureaus and research institutes were moving to the east along with defense plants. They created and tested new military equipment that was to surpass the German.
Thus, during the war years, more than 35,000 IL-2 combat planes, nicknamed the “Black Death,” and more than 60,000 iconic T-34 tanks, which had great maneuverability, reliable armor, and powerful armament, were produced in the east.
This part of the series sheds light on the sacrifices of the workers and volunteers, who had to work for long hours to keep the Red Army well-armed and ensure victory in the war.
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usa saved the world from adolph hitler…now we will save it from vladolph pitler…heheheh
russians saved the world from hitler.
period.
the u.s. snuck in like thieves after the eastern front had already collapsed. and sponsored the spread of communism on the world, costing probably a billion lives in the 40 years after ww2.
no one believes your shit any more.
no one.
you derp hard when you derp. respect.
hitler was 2nd to none when it came to exterminating slav-orcs…heheee
hitler was second to none when it came to exterminating germans. by the time he punched his own ticket, his antics had brought about the deaths of 7 million germans.
and the us / england led allied forces the war in civilian casualties . opps , your not supposed to know that !
derp derp?
hitler was a coward who killed himself and left his shattered army to fend for themselves.
deep down hitler loved the jews. at least 6 foot down.
russia can’t even “liberate” donbas after 3+ years!!! hehehehe
but they marched all the way to berlin in ww2 in less than 4 years???–no no no no!
after usa single-handedly defeated germany and japan in ww2, the russian-orc jackals rushed in to steal unearned spoils and glory!!!
the whole world knows it, it was you, the zews who defeated hitler
observing the developments.