Operation Barbarossa | World War II With Tom Hanks

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After consolidating power following Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Stalin maintained an iron grip on the Soviet Union and, as Soviet premier, agreed to the 1939 non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, which extended the Soviet western border and temporarily precluded war with Hitler's Germany; however, this strategic decision proved to be a catastrophic miscalculation that would ultimately lead to the devastating Operation Barbarossa invasion.