What happens in russia during ww2

On 22 June 1941, Hitler launched an invasion of the Soviet Union. Stalin was confident that the total Allied war machine would eventually stop Germany,

and with Lend Lease from the West, the Soviets stopped the Wehrmacht some 30 kilometers (or 18.6 miles) from Moscow. Over the next four years, the Soviet Union repulsed Axis offensives, such as at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Kursk, and pressed forward to victory in large Soviet offensives, such as the Vistula-Oder Offensive.

The bulk of Soviet fighting took place on the Eastern Front-including a continued war with Finland-but it also invaded Iran (August 1941) in cooperation with the British and late in the war attacked Japan (August 1945), with which the Soviets had border wars earlier up until in 1939.

In September 1941, Stalin told the Brtish diplomats that he wanted two agreements to a mutual assistance aid pact and a recognition that, after the war that Soviet Union would gain the territories in the Counties.