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Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front (Season 5, Episode 54)
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Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front Part of Eastern Front Week (3) on WW2TV After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, German troops conquered the heartland of Soviet industry and agriculture and turned the occupied ...See moreFortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front Part of Eastern Front Week (3) on WW2TV After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, German troops conquered the heartland of Soviet industry and agriculture and turned the occupied territories into mass killing fields. The country's survival hung in the balance. In today's show we look at the Soviet Union's civilians, their spirited defense efforts and frequent selfless heroism. In one of the greatest wartime feats in history, Soviet workers rapidly evacuated factories, food, and people thousands of miles to the east. After long and dangerous journeys in unheated boxcars, they built a new industrial base beyond the reach of German bombers. As the Soviet state reached the height of its power, imposing military discipline and sending millions of people to work thousands of miles from home, ordinary people withstood starvation, epidemics, and horrific living conditions to supply the front and make the Allied victory possible Today we look at these dark and painful war years from a new perspective, telling the stories of evacuees, refugees, teenaged and women workers, runaways from work, prisoners, and deportees. Wendy Z. Goldman is a social and political historian of Russia. Her most recent work (with Donald Filtzer), Fortress Dark and Stern. The Soviet Home Front during World War II (Oxford University Press, 2021) (winner of the Society for Military History prize) is the first comprehensive study of the contribution of the Soviet home front to the victory in World War II. Written by Paul Woodadge See less
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Updated Sep 1, 2022
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Sep 1, 2022 (France)

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