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Tyson’s fan: “Hollywood and Rocky 4 are wrong, black and Chinese rescue white from USSR in Cold War.”

Chinese fan of Mike Tyson: “Hollywood, Rambo 2, and Rocky 4 have it in reverse. If the Battle of Moscow cannot bring down USSR, so is the arm race. Black and Chinese rescue white American from USSR in Cold War Boxing and in war.”

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Battle of Moscow


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This article is about the 1941 battle. For other uses, see Battle of Moscow (disambiguation).






Battle of Moscow

Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
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Soviet anti-aircraft gunners on the roof of the Moskva hotel


Date
2 October 1941 – 7 January 1942
(3 months and 5 days)

Location
Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR

Result
Strategic Soviet victory
German operational and tactical failure
Eventual failure of Operation Barbarossa



Belligerents

Germany Soviet Union

Commanders and leaders

Fedor von Bock
Albert Kesselring
Heinz Guderian Georgy Zhukov
Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Units involved

Army Group Centre2nd Panzer Army
3rd Panzer Army
4th Panzer Army
2nd Army
4th Army
9th Army
Army Group South6th Army
Western Front16th Army
19th Army
20th Army
22nd Army
29th Army
30th Army
Cavalry Group "Dovator"
Reserve Front24th Army
31st Army
32nd Army
43rd Army
49th Army
Bryansk FrontOperational Group Ermakov 3rd Army
13th Army
50th Army



Strength

As of 1 October 1941:
1,183,693–1,929,406 men,
[1][2][3][4]
1,000–2,470 tanks and assault guns,[5][6]
14,000 guns,
Initial aircraft: 549 serviceable[7][8][9] At time of counter offensive: 599[10] As of 1 October 1941:
1,250,000–1,400,000 men,
3,232 tanks,
7,600 guns,
Initial aircraft: 936 (545 serviceable)[7] At time of counter offensive: 1,376[10]

Casualties and losses

German Strategic Offensive: (1 October. 1941 to 10 January 1942)
October: 62,870
November: 46,374
December: 41,819
January: 23.131
Total: 174,194 KIA, WIA, MIA (see §7)[11] Moscow Defense:[12] (30 September 1941 to 5 November 1942)
514,338 killed or missing
143,941 wounded
Moscow Offensive:[13] (5 December 1941 to 7 January 1942)
139,586 killed or missing
231,369 wounded
Total: 1,029,234(see §7),




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The Battle of Moscow (Russian: Битва за Москву, translit. Bitva za
Moskvu) was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It
took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces in their
invasion of the Soviet Union.

The German strategic offensive, named Operation Typhoon (German: Unternehmen Taifun), called for two pincer offensives, one to the north of Moscow against the Kalinin Front by the 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies, simultaneously severing the
Moscow–Leningrad
railway, and another to the south of Moscow Oblast against the Western Front south of Tula, by the 2nd Panzer Army, while the 4th Army advanced directly towards Moscow from the west. According to Andrew Roberts, Hitler's offensive towards the Soviet
capital was nothing less than an 'all-out attack': "It is no exaggeration to state that the outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance during this massive attack".[14]

Initially, the Soviet forces conducted a strategic defence of the Moscow Oblast
by constructing three defensive belts, deploying newly raised reserve armies, and bringing troops from the Siberian and Far Eastern Military Districts. As the German
offensives were halted, a Soviet strategic counter-offensive and smaller-scale offensive operations forced the German armies back to the positions around the cities of Oryol, Vyazma and Vitebsk, and nearly surrounded three German armies.
It was a major
setback for the Germans, the end of the idea of a fast German victory in the USSR.[15][16] Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was excused as commander of
OKH, with Hitler appointing himself as Germany's supreme military commander.

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