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ARCTIC CONVOYS, 1941 - 1945
“The worst journey in the world.”
Winston Churchill
In the early part of 1941, having failed to defeat the British, Hitler planned his surprise attack upon the Soviet Union. Stalin stuck strictly to the terms of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939, continuing to supply Germany with grain and oil up to the very day of the Nazi invasion, despite urgent warnings from intelligence sources that Hitler was about to strike. Churchill claimed that his new allies “…first impulse and lasting policy was to demand all succour from Great Britain and her empire... .They do not hesitate to appeal in urgent and strident terms to harassed and struggling Britain to send them ammunitions of which our armies are so short.”
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“The worst journey in the world.”
Winston Churchill
In the early part of 1941, having failed to defeat the British, Hitler planned his surprise attack upon the Soviet Union. Stalin stuck strictly to the terms of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939, continuing to supply Germany with grain and oil up to the very day of the Nazi invasion, despite urgent warnings from intelligence sources that Hitler was about to strike. Churchill claimed that his new allies “…first impulse and lasting policy was to demand all succour from Great Britain and her empire... .They do not hesitate to appeal in urgent and strident terms to harassed and struggling Britain to send them ammunitions of which our armies are so short.”
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