Operation Barbarossa when Hitler invades the Soviet Union with, I think, the largest invading force in history up to that point.
So Operation Barbarossa that you're mentioning...
Because in Barbarossa, you're talking about 17 Panzer divisions out of, you know, the hundred involved in the initial attack.
So when you're talking about Operation Barbarossa, to go back to your original question, Lex, you're dealing with an operation on such a vast scale
But the opening phase of Barbarossa has been a catastrophe.
through the months immediately preceding the Operation Barbarossa.
And on the night of Operation Barbarossa, he gets drunk at the Imperial Hotel, stands up on a table, and tells an audience of Nazis, Hitler is a bandit.
Like many others who behaved barbarously during the war, he had lived a perfectly conventional life beforehand, exhibiting no signs of racial prejudice or anti-Muslim
fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire." Then of course there was Vannevar Bush's 1945 article, 'As We May Think' in which he noted
And so you have to understand that everything about Operation Barbarossa, the planned invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941,
What you see is in the initial phases of Operation Barbarossa, they surge forward.
You know, they go into Barbarossa with 2,000 different types of vehicle.
So the result is that Stalin indeed does not know-- is blindsided by Operation Barbarossa.
I mean, this is a problem he has with Barbarossa.
I mean, you know, Barbarossa should never have come close to being a victory.
But yeah, there's so many things wrong with the Barbarossa plan.
That is true. Sorge did in fact warn the Soviets multiple times that plans for Barbarossa were advancing.
"In view of these facts, we cannot but regard the practice of shaving as a decidedly barbarous one, and which ought to be discountenced by the progressive civilization of the age."
Two things I want to point out to you. Number one is "barbarous." Number two is "discountenance."
So the question for Sorge, June 23rd, the day after Barbarossa, is why?
The option to select the unscrupulous Wario is vulgar, but allowing gamers, often young gamers, to select the wanton, lascivious Koopa King is beyond barbarous.