Home Front/ Military Front: The Soviet Union in WWII

This presentation will focus on the epic feat of evacuation in the wake of the Nazi invasion on June 22, 1941.  In the first six months of the war, the Soviet state called on workers to evacuate the industrial base in the west and move it thousands of miles to the east.  No other country had ever accomplished such a feat in either war or peacetime.  The machines were accompanied by millions of people, and even herds of animals.  Although little is known outside the former Soviet Union about this feat, it enabled the country to supply the Red Army, and ultimately, to win the war.