Plausibly Live! - The Official Podcast Of The Dave Bowman Show

History doesn’t often repeat itself on the exact day. But sometimes, it seems to have a cruel sense of timing. Twice, on June 22, Europe’s most powerful warlords, Napoleon Bonaparte in 1812 and Adolf Hitler in 1941, looked across their maps, stared toward the East, and decided they could break the Russian bear. Both gambled that a lightning campaign would bring Moscow to heel. Both sent enormous armies marching toward Russian soil. And both, despite different ideologies, weapons, and centuries, walked straight into the same trap.