victims killed in the fight against those troops and scrapes and the news of something from the soviet union from the east the bloodiest conflicts in regions history which became known as the great world. when next we talked to british historian the author a go to michael jones well known for his books on world war two he told r.t. what motivates hitler's decision to invent the same unit seventy years ago want to help the civil troops to win the war. today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of operation hitler's code name for germany's invasion of the soviet union it became the largest ever military operation both in terms of sheer resources deployed and also in casualties and michael jones's new book tells the story of the red old me during the second world war dr james thank you for talking to r.t. to say well let's start from the beginning of operation barbarossa why did decide to invade the. always wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave