you always want to call the living space. and do the expense of the people he regarded as racially inferior and when he announced operation he told his staff that it was a war of annihilation didn't he he he thort in terms of a war of survival. it was going to be the survival of the fittest and it didn't take and started to realize the consequences of. that there would be horrific losses. and that was indeed how unexpected it was the invasion i mean hitler and stalin had signs that. pact making them allies onesie allies of course but allies nonetheless they were allies and the soviet union was caught by surprise and this with stalin's great. stalin was not naive but he thought that germany would not attack in nine hundred forty one he thought the attack would come late and he believed that he could use this product to develop the soviet union's and

sphere of influence and at the same time. the radhasoami and transfer industry was beyond your own mountains but in fact he got it very very badly wrong and of course the red army was caught deeply unprepared in nine hundred forty one your book is about the sort of human story behind the how did it develop militarily during the cold. war the beginning in one nine hundred forty one the red army was hunted. by the autumn of one nine hundred forty one and the last between two and three million tons of killed missing and captured. i think few in the world could have sustain that level of punishment and still carried on fighting and it was not. as high come on to believe at that point the soviet union. and what was it that kept the red army fighting that's the sixty four thousand. question an

extraordinary mix of. brutal leadership tough leadership from stalin but it was necessary to be tough and new autumn of nineteen forty one and stalin result would be defended and they would keep fighting but it was a. profound truth that the red army recovered from the initial crisis realized it was a battle for the survival and what was at stake was not just a communist system but russia as a country in the soviet union in the boardroom so it's not and it really did become a part of it war it was unusual time in the red army did develop quite a lot during a time of. what do you think explains the marked difference in its effectiveness from say nine hundred forty one to for example the battle of stalingrad in which it secured a stunning victory one of course that technical reasons to the red army in the midst of war is retraining. that's the worst possible time to do it but they are

doing it and to give them credit this begins to make a difference they transfer their industry as they get them up and running and certainly by the end astonishing that better trained and better equipped but the germans still familiar to both and i believe it was just the science for the technical side germany could very well have won it either in one nine hundred forty one nine hundred forty two but it was the love of the model and it was this extraordinary determination to carry on fighting the. us tonight hitler wanted to. quit campaign was crucial but it didn't work out like that's a tool that he thought it would all be over and he was not alone off to the will of the german generals just since we were against it but at the time many of them agreed with hitler they thought the war could be a very quickly in three months and of course we won't make the same mistake because napoleon we won't have a winning tool. because will want to buy the will they were carried away by their

own successes their previous successes blitzkrieg lightning war and they believe that if they hammered the road on the at the front here it would all. but they are underestimated the red army and they underestimated the soviet union and was that a turning point or was it just onset of the winter when the weather they just had full well the germans blame the weather. again and you could just pop seen that one coming but they were caught by surprise and they said the weather rolled them but in fact i think the weather was part of the story and the other part that was much harder for them to acknowledge was that an army that seemed to feed to demoralize them last in a matter of weeks and five days turned itself around and started fighting and resisting with stupendous power and the first turning point was outside moscow the germans expected to take the capital they were later than they thought but they

still thought that would end the war and it was the strength and determination of resistance that caught me by surprise ahead of the campaign hit was repeatedly. taking western russia would in fact be more of a drain on germany's economic resources than it would be beneficial why did he go ahead with the campaign anyway. was motivated by his own son of leadership he believed he had a mission almost divine mission a very dark divinity to lead his people to great success and it was this mission that he was going to follow on on a fundamental level he was never really going to listen to advice that he perceived that the soviet union was the enemy and he also believed its resources could be plundered and used for a great to me at the end of the day he was going to follow it up. one. what were

the consequences of the ultimate failure of operation. well it destroyed the german army it destroyed it throughout the war the majority of its resources were concentrated on the eastern front and even after d.-day more three quarters of divisions military divisions were fighting on the eastern front so it was where the biggest battles took place the biggest casualties took place on. the road system and more casualties than the city could also replace those casualties. so it became a war of attrition and ultimately it was going to be germany that would lose that war and it was destroyed it frays a war on two fronts wasn't it well believed that a war on two fronts could work if you won the war against the soviet union quickly and of course if had been won quickly that could have well been the case but once

the war started dragging on into nine hundred forty two nine hundred forty three germany was lost and that mocked which had behaved with a deal of decorum on the western front behaved in a completely different way in the east didn't it what do you put that down to well after the war the german claimed it was fighting a clean war and it was it was the units behind the army and it was the us that were doing all the unpleasant stuff that was not true the soldiers on the eastern front with decent behave decently but many were infected by the race propaganda towards the smallest towards the jews and the german army i the participated in atrocities special statistic oncet use against the russian civilian population or certainly knew they were going on and justified i mean the justification was we were fighting a brutal war as. survival. bit but war with darker than any other war in

the twentieth century indeed possibly in human history the role played by the see if you need to feel. falsely underappreciated in the west why is that. when in part it's the legacy of the cold war that surprisingly history is normally written they say by the victor is that view of this part of our history is very strongly determined by the germans because the german view became incorporated into the historical frank thinking in the in with the cold war so there was an underestimation or willingness to recognize what the soviet union fully and i think the cold war in part was the reason for thought but i think the other reason is the scale is so i mean we're talking about twenty seven million in terms of civilian and military casualties and i think the other reason is simply it's so

big the people who struggle to really comprehend it and one of the things i wanted to to in my book is to make that story comprehensible to give it a human voice so that people can relate and that just being a mass of for all the overwhelming statistics that's michael james thank you very much thank you.

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dot com. hello welcome to the sports news on a busy day of football and running delays in the tennis at wimbledon and fear of the headlines. the new special one under a big bonuses confirms the new chelsea manager often moving from porto on a three year deal. plus off to a farmer issue out of the clashes russian compacted an attack that's out there closer to the second round at wimbledon all the rain delays on day straight. and kicking off seven rugby touches down in moscow this weekend with the european tour on craig. profess to football and chelsea have confirmed under a village bow. yes as the club's new manager the former porto head will start work immediately west london after signing

a three year deal following his departure from the portuguese champions on choose day the thirty three year old who previously worked as a scout under jos amory knew at chelsea won a triple with porto last season securing the domestically title and cup as well as the europa league crown flashed by us is the youngest ever manager at stamford bridge the same age as players frank one part and did a drug abuse sacked their previous coach carlo ancelotti last month. now this wednesday there is a patch program in the russian premier league the penultimate round before a month long summer break and run about off the next day late penalty of ten man ross the group one want to taunt and later there are two moscow darby's league leaders say scott has won five of the last six games and while the last of the teeth want spotlight his dilemma in what will be the visitors first game without a silk in charge informed that it's in petersburg you currently boast the leaks to the top scorers and to think about vulgar travel to twice former champions rubin second bottom koreas the better off welcome to high flying and she amcon host rock

bottom spot on now take class and up take on fed ex. well me wasn't have confirmed emmanuel adebayor or is among their transfer interest this summer with manchester city saying they will release the togo star if the money is right out of value or was bought from arsenal for twenty five million pounds two years ago being city are set to suffer a significant financial loss on the play as the needs are believed to be ready to offer only a maximum of eight million pounds. well meanwhile former tottenham boss martin yall has signed a two year deal to become manager of fellow english premier league side for them and the fifty five year old dutchman says he is delighted to be going back to work after taking a year long break. and the. same story every day. where you would like to come back to a winter nicer than when i lived. right here on the source of a. tennis now and five former champion venus

williams is being taken the distance in her second round match at wimbledon by the forty year old chemical dart a crumb there in the deciding third set recovered center court this is the only match being played at the moment at the tournament as the rest of the action has been placed to take the rain in london. while on a day to refer to one wimbledon at the age of seventeen in two thousand and four eased her way into round two this year with a comfortable victory over russian combated an attack without saying there were no worries for the fifth seed on center court trap of a drop just three games are twenty six two six one when russia that laura robson and take care that. pretty again against an opponent that's been the top turn before hasn't had the best results this year but. don't quite know what to expect because i'm sure she come out in the match and have nothing to lose and i thought she could a. good match. and there was an emotional return to wimbledon for serena williams

the defending champion burst into tears following a hard fought victory over french out of unresigned williams recently came back to the sport after a year long injury layoff and pushed hard before taking the match six three three six six one so it was joy and relief all in one for the thirteen time grand slam winner. well it was the first match of the season on grass for caroline wozniacki but the top ranked dane was an easy six two six one winner i didn't paint a bunch of percent on your first step towards have made a grand slam. never actually serve pretty well but anyway as the conditions were brutal everything there was one point where you don't have the ball or almost didn't come over and go hit the explosions through. so i tried to about those girls so curve. hopefully i'll be ready for the next match as well. however ten seats around the stones are became the biggest casualty so far after crashing out to

hundreds melinda's in player right outside the top two hundred. and over on the men's side roger federer and novak djokovic has suffered few difficulties are reached the second round federer who is a been for a record tying seventh all england crown didn't push himself too hard against. the question of the swiss was always in control in the seven six six four sixty but also serious talk about the serbian was in devastating for me against france's jeremy shockey six four six one six one was how the tie wrapped up to the never both reached the defining. me one nick like that danco is on his way home the russian was seen off by a strained teenage prodigy but not a toe make however andy roddick cruised past germany's and placed back on russia's highest seed because at last the twenty one arco following a tough five setter. basket will now and have unveiled two

new sign. they hope will once again make the russian club a force to be reckoned with in europe and moscow outfit enjoyed a wretched season last time at if they fail to get past the first hurdle of the year only which of them portrayed as well. during serious cast was campaigning in a decade the club has been quick to rank. and some in media have been booted to try and help the team to back to advantage with the best clubs from around the continent a man who's come off a stellar season in the french league said to join a team like serious car was a no brainer this is a team full of great players and you know i know my role is going to be different this year than it was you know the last two years in france where you know that's the best part of the challenge as as a player and as part of me wanted to have a better career his playing less of a role but in the bigger picture so arm i'm excited about that you know i feel like you know this is the organization that you want to be into if you want to get to the final for the you're really. serious can have a quite

a man with massive experience he's played for the oklahoma city thunder for three seasons and will be a great addition to the scoreboard especially following the departure of veteran trajan langdon jael holden imitation mortis are also expected to leave the moscow aren't fit to serve says he had offers to stay in the n.b.a. but said he's designed to win trophies was why he joined the army men the one main reason. i came here to try to win do you really you can train during the russian league and try to mean everything. and have opportunity to cure to play. one of the leading roles in this team and that's one thing i was missing and b. . is likely to be a starter and serious crimes go to man me i will probably have to be content with less playing time on the court however the american say is his versatility could prove to be a major plus point for the army even at the end of the. i just want to try to do

things to help the team win whether it's rebounding scoring the ball or passing the wall or playing defense and you know i feel like on this team i can really help you know in a lot of different ways because it is not so much pressure on one individual guy each game but as a collective group we can find ways to do a lot of little things to help this team with a serious crime our club in transition but many of the old guard stepping down and whether the army men have been quick to replace them with some of the best talent from around europe has been looked to regain their place and once europe's elite after last season's less than satisfactory campaign richard we don't see moscow. and not one of those highly anticipated news of the year in the n.b.a. spanish hot prospects ricky rubio finally touched down in minneapolis after a two year wait and the twenty year old is aiming to change the fortunes of the team that finished bottom of the league last season the minnesota timberwolves. happy to hear the most important thing is next year i'm going to play for minnesota

. going to try to wean to try to be a better team i'm so happy to hear. moving on to cycling and with just ten days to go before the start of the tour de france british right at mont cavendish says he's itching to finally convert his numerous stage wins into the elusive green jersey that goes to the points winner last year's race was won by under-fire star alberto contador who is also the favorites to retain the overall win as a yellow jersey but it was cavendish who knocked up five stage victories including a final run through paris which was more than any other rider and took his overall tally to an impressive fifteen in three is however the king of sprint had to settle for disappointing second place in the points classification and the twenty six year old is all set to go one better next month when he stands on the coveted green jersey like the one he trained in last year's tour of spain. i am going for the green jersey i have gone for the green jersey the last two years is just my way you get the green jersey is to try and win as many stages possible which technically

does more points on offer for stage win so technically you should come out on top on the hasn't been the case last two years so i am got the job i only got the green jersey but it's not free not try and my tactics are gay and it was how i did it. now russia may be busy preparing for their made an appearance at the rugby world cup in new zealand in september but another form of the sport rugby sevens will be hitting moscow this weekend the russian capital is once again hosting the second of the four stages of you will increase serious russia are fifth overall after the season opening round the all last week england are leading the way ahead of spain twelve teams are taking parts making for a patch edgel of matches on saturday and sunday and then went on home turf for the young russian team is what they'll be aiming for the ultimate goals by further in the future. a lot is now being done we've worked out a program for the russian national team as they prepare for the twenty sixth the

summer olympics in rio these are the first games to feature rugby sevens tournament but our main goal now is twenty thirteen when most schools stage the world cup and we hope russia will go into these events in top form and produce the best possible result. and that's always will this person by phone or. wealthy british style stock. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars

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mckown. experts investigate the calls of a plane crash in northwest russia out of the catastrophe claims another life brings the death toll to forty five. relatives of the survivors and the victims of the tupolev one three four plane crash in russia the sites of their loved ones while the people of the republic of korea offer flowers and prayers at the site join me for the details in a few moments. but i'm anti terror operation is under way the north caucuses of the reports suggesting special forces have suffered losses after a drag on the militants card ballots all the details are coming up shortly. in other news the greek government wins a vote of confidence indorsing the savage cuts required to secure a new e.u. value out angry greeks thank their points is not being heard.

plus the russian markets closed slightly up bought in this is remain wary as a u.s. central bank needs to decide on interest rates more on business than around twenty minutes telling. its seven pm in moscow this. coming to you live now with our top story the number of people killed in a plane crash in northwest russia has risen to forty five after a young boy died in hospital experts are examining the doomed to pull of black boxes to establish the cause of the tragedy all family and friends have arrived at the site to pay their last respects tess arsole reports. the relatives of the victims and the survivors some of them have already made their way here saw bars still on the way a ten year old boy had passed away at the hospital to his injuries so his family

definitely going through an emotional time now it will be a tough day for their families because they have the task of identifying the bodies at the borg and also we have spoken to some of those who were first at the scene and they were telling us about what they had seen where the plane had crashed bodies and body parts and bodies all over the place let's hear from one of the witnesses about what he had experienced. first. then we heard a man screaming. so i ran to my house. but it's still very early stages to come up with one to see every investigators are still working on the case. they have had some initial theories based on physical evidence as you can see behind me this is the forest where the plane had gone through its path going to the airport so it had really burned out the force also knocked out a power line and there were statements made by your.