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Operation Barbarossa: June 22nd 1941 - German armed forces achieved strategic
surprise and made substantial progress towards their initial objectives.
Army Group Center reached Smolensk by July. Large Soviet military forces
were surrounded as a result. An operational pause ensued at the center
of the front while armored forces from Army Group Center drove south to
link up with forces driving northward from Army Group South. This move
destroyed a substantial concentration of Soviet armed forces around Kiev. |
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