Gorlovka

In early November 1941, the Italian troops of the CSIR (Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Russia) had reached the Donbass. Regiments 79 and 80 of the Infantry Division Pasubio were ordered to capture the industrial city of Gorlovka. On …

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In early November 1941, the Italian troops of the CSIR (Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Russia) had reached the Donbass. Regiments 79 and 80 of the Infantry Division Pasubio were ordered to capture the industrial city of Gorlovka. On the 2nd of November, after a bitter street fighting against Soviet troops, the Italian infantrymen had captured the city. The 80th Regiment who had advanced to Nikitovka was surrounded during several days before to break the surrounding on the 6th of November and to withdraw to Italian lines on Gorlovka.

Gorlovka, Ukraine

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. The German Generalplan Ost aimed to use some of the conquered people as slave labour for the Axis war effort while acquiring the oil reserves of the Caucasus as well as the agricultural resources of various Soviet territories. Their ultimate goal included the eventual extermination, enslavement, Germanization and mass deportation to Siberia of the Slavic peoples, and to create more Lebensraum for Germany.

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