For students who have studied world strength, they should know that during World War II, the Soviet Union broke out the Soviet-German War to resist the aggression of Nazi Germany and its servant countries, and this war also has a special position in the history of the world, is an important force for the people of the world to resist the fascist aggressors, and is also a particularly tragic war, during which the casualties of the two countries totaled nine million.
When the war was first ignited, the Soviet Union was at a disadvantage at the beginning of the war because it could not withstand the sudden attack of the German army, and this situation did not change until the battle of Stalingrad in June 1942, when both the Soviet and German armies were stationed in eastern Ukraine, and the engagement between the two armies fell into a long stalemate, after which the German superiority on the Soviet battlefield began to diminish little by little. And the blitzkrieg, which the Germans were best at, never played its former role. The Battle of Stalingrad was later called a turning point in the Soviet-German war, but in fact, this statement is problematic.
If we look deeply into the Battle of Stalingrad launched by the German army, we will know that this was only the beginning of the Soviet Union's passive change of initiative, and the battle that made the Soviet Union the first place on the battlefield was the Battle of Kursk. This was also the German army's dying struggle on the Soviet-German battlefield, and before the war, the German army also planned to carry out a devastating blow to the Soviet Union in the hope of occupying the battlefield again, but the sky did not go according to people's wishes, and finally Germany was completely defeated, and 500,000 troops were exhausted. After the two sides fought this war, the Soviet army firmly grasped the advantage of the war, the status of the German army changed sharply from the offensive side to the defensive side, and the Soviet army also began its own revenge journey.
Before the Battle of Kursk, the Nazi German army had not had such a setback in the strategic offensive, because all the previous defeats were more than 200 kilometers away from the German forward base, because the failures caused by insufficient troops or insufficient logistics were basically in winter. But the Battle of Kursk reversed the strategic posture of "Soviet winter offensive, German summer offensive". In this battle, the Germans lost more than a thousand tanks and self-propelled guns, and the losses in personnel were extremely heavy, and their proud elite armored units were severely damaged. Although the losses of the Soviet army were not small, even higher than those of the German army, the Soviet army completely won the strategic initiative after the war and began a comprehensive counteroffensive.
In the Battle of Kursk, in the face of the Soviet army that was already equipped, Hitler still chose his "blitzkrieg" mode of operation, and the tactical tactics were basically unchanged, which showed that Hitler hoped to win the battle as quickly as possible. But in fact, some experts believe that Germany has lost the best opportunity for "blitzkrieg", should adopt a more flexible way of combat, spend more time and energy on reconnaissance and infiltration in the early stage, avoid launching a strong attack from the front of the Soviet army, and at the same time do not transfer the German army on the eastern front to the western front to deal with Italian affairs, but in Western Europe to form a reserve army on the spot to defend the Allied attack on the western front, for the Kursk war to take time, then history may really be rewritten, but the victory or defeat of a battle, can not change the fate of the German army. The war of aggression launched by Nazi Germany can only fail in the end, and it is only a matter of time when it will be defeated.