'When Barbarossa commences,' Adolf Hitler said on this day in 1941, 'the world will hold its breath and make no comment.' Barbarossa was the codename for the Nazi invasion of Russia and, not for the first or last time, Adi got it wrong. The Red Army fought him to a standstill and then drove him back.
Nazi Germany 0; USSR 1
In other news ...
Fred Astaire, the brilliant dancer, died today in 1987 at the age of 88. For all you feminists out there, I'd just like to remind you that everything Ginger Rogers did, Fred Astaire did too - only forwards.
