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CIA World Factbook means the Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook as at 21 February 2019;

CIA World Factbook. BBC Country Page: National Geographic: Kyiv Post English Although they were unable to capture Moscow as Xxxxxx had predicted, German soldiers continued advancing east into Russia. By summer 1942 the Nazi army had captured all of Ukraine, much of southern Russia, and the Caucasus. In September Nazi forces began a siege of the city of Stalingrad (now known as Volgograd) on the Volga River. The battle is considered the largest and bloodiest in the history of warfare. More than 700,000 Nazi soldiers and 1.1 million Soviet soldiers were killed in five months of fighting. By February 1943, German forces were surrounded, desperately low on supplies, and beginning to starve and freeze to death. The remaining soldiers surrendered, marking a major turning point in the war. The Red Army began reclaiming territory, forcing German troops to retreat from Russia and recapturing Ukraine east of the Dnipro River by autumn 1943. By this point it was becoming clear that the Soviet Union would not collapse and that Germany would eventually be defeated. Xxxxxx met with British Prime Minister Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx and US President Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx in Tehran, where the leaders discussed their roles in the conflict and began making plans for the post- war order. A second conference was held in Yalta in Crimea in February 1945. In spring 1944 Soviet forces were advancing into Poland. By October they had reached Warsaw. In January 1945 Red Army troops entered Germany and by Xxx had encircled Berlin. On May 8 Germany surrendered. However, because the articles of surrender were signed after midnight Moscow time, the date is remem- bered as May 9 in much of the former Soviet Union. The “Big Three” — Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, and Xxxxxx — meet in Yalta in 1945. The Battle of Stalingrad is considered to be the largest single battle in human history Kyiv Booby Trap — As Soviet forces were being forced out of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, they planted explosives in buildings along the city’s main thoroughfare. Once German sol- xxxxx had captured the city and occupied the buildings, the explosives were detonated re- motely, laying waste to much of Kyiv’s central district. The street was reconstructed in grand Stalinist architectural style in the 1950s. Postwar Demographic Crisis—The war drastically reduced the population of the Sovi- et Union. While exact figures are not availa- ble, more than 20 million Soviet citizens are believed to have been killed during the war. Men were most affected due to...

CIA World Factbook. BBC Country Page: National Geographic: Kyiv Post English The price of Soviet victory in World War II was enormous. More than 13 percent of the population had been killed and 25 million were homeless by the end of the war. The postwar years saw a significant gender imbalance, since many of the country’s men were killed as soldiers in battle. The USSR lost approximately sev- en times as many soldiers as all of the other allies combined in the European the- ater. In 1946 and 1947, a famine swept through the Soviet Union due to drought and devastation from the war. Despite the massive loss of life and hardship, the Soviet Union emerged from the war as a global power. With British influence diminished due to heavy losses dur- ing the war and the effects of decolonization, the United States and the Soviet Union were left as the world’s two unrivaled superpowers, a situation that would soon lead to decades of conflict. Upon defeat Germany was forced to give up the territories it had annexed before it invaded the Soviet Union, including Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the western part of Poland. The Soviet Union, however, kept the eastern piece of Poland it had taken in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, incorporating it into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. That territory remains part of modern-day Ukraine and includes the city of Lviv. The three Baltic states also remained part of the Soviet Union, as did Moldova. Those countries gained independence in 1991 with the collapse of the USSR. A Soviet propaganda poster from World War II. Why did the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany sign a non-aggression pact in 1939? Discuss the interests of both countries in pursuing the agreement. Discuss how the war affected the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history. How did it change the Soviet Union? What did Xxxxxx xxxx to achieve by invading the Soviet Union? Why did the invasion even- tually fail? Why have some former Soviet republics cho- sen to replace Victory Day with other com- memorations? What is the legacy of World War II in other former communist nations? Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx. Bloodlands: Europe Be-

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CIA World Factbook means the Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook as at 3 December 2020;