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Legendary card · History
Operation Barbarossa, a Legendary card
Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 94
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 194
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,100,000
Power 194 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Operation Barbarossa quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Operation Barbarossa card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on Sunday, 22 June ____, during World War II.
Answer
1940s. Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. From the Operation Barbarossa article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Vladimir Lenin. Vladimir Lenin 2,300,000 · Operation Barbarossa 1,100,000 · Gamal Abdel Nasser 760,000 · Hanseatic League 460,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- More than 3.8 million Axis troops invaded the western Soviet Union along a 2,900-kilometer front, with the main goal of capturing territory up to a line between Arkhangelsk and Astrakhan, known as the A–A line.
- The attack became the largest and costliest military offensive in human history, with around 10 million combatants taking part in the opening phase and over 8 million casualties by the end of the operation on 5 December 1941.
- It marked a major escalation of World War II, opened the Eastern Front, the largest and deadliest land war in history, and brought the Soviet Union into the Allied powers.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Operation Barbarossa article was read about 1,100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 94 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Operation Barbarossa
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Operation Barbarossa (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1974-099-19 / Kempe / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Samaryi Guraryi / Самарий Гурари, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
