Photo: World War II Chronicle Frame. Columnist Florian Stark published material in the German edition of Die Welt, in which he tried to justify the defeat of the Wehrmacht near Moscow only by bad weather.
In his article, he noted that the Nazi occupiers were supposed to take Moscow as a result of Operation Typhoon, but she suffocated. According to the author, the rapid advance of the Germans came to a halt, as the material and technical security of the troops was interrupted, especially not enough fuel and ammunition.
meter deep, “Stark remarked.
The author believes that Moscow was engulfed in “chaos” at the time, but the Germans simply “never came to Moscow.” Stark also claims that Joseph Stalin hosted a “feast” in Moscow at the time in honor of Western magnates – British Lord Beaverbrook and American Averell Harriman – with caviar, game, roast piglets, ice cream, cognac, vodka and wine. Let us recall that on December 5, 1941, the Red Army launched a counteroffensive near Moscow and threw the Germans 150-300 kilometers back. It was the most difficult defeat for Nazi Germany for the first time since September 1939.