Operation Barbarossa, launched 80 years ago this week by the Nazi Germans against the Soviet Union with a force of nearly 4 million men, was in many ways "the worst thing that ever happened." With massive brutal savagery on a scale never see before or after, millions fell to terror, weapons, fire and starvation. Will we really "never see the like of it again"?

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