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Unit 1
Part II Reading task Comprehension
Possible answers to content questions
1. It refers to the raw, bitter, bleak Russian winter. 2. He expected the conquest of Russia in five weeks.
3. Instead of fighting, they retreated eastward, burning their crops and homes as they went. They let the Russian winter fight the war for them while they bided their time. 4. Napoleon discovered that the occupation of the city was an empty victory because the Russians fled their capital leaving him almost nothing at all.
5. They suffered heavy losses as a result of the extreme cold and the Russians' hit-and-run attacks.
6. Napoleon abdicated and went into exile.
7. Hitler began his invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 without a declaration of war. He expected the campaign to last no longer than three months by using the so-called "lightning war" tactics.
8. No, he wasn't. He instructed the Russian people to "scorch the earth" in front of the German invaders.
9. The people of Leningrad refused to surrender and put up a heroic, stiff resistance. 10. An early, severe, cold winter, to a large extent, slowed down the German advance on Moscow.
11. The loss of the battle for Stalingrad turned the tide against Hitler. The German victories were over.
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