The Arctic 78 years ago today: Operation Silver Fox (03 Sep 1941) https://buff.ly/2Zx5SZ9 On 22 June 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union, with Finland joining in a few days later. In the Arctic, German and Finnish forces crossed into northern Russia in an attempt to seize Murmansk but were slowed by the terrain and beaten back by a stubborn Soviet resistance. Thus, despite German advances almost everywhere else, the Soviet Union's only year-round ice-free Atlantic port remained open to shipments of Allied supplies. #arctic #history #welovehistory #map #1940s #20thcentury #1941 #nazigermany #thirdreich #finlandwar #barbarossa #easternfront #ussr #sovietunion #september #september3 #worldwarii #worldwar2 #ww2 #wwii #secondworldwar #maps #todayinhistory #historyteacher #historybuff #historygeek #historynerd #worldhistory #cartography #geopolitics (at Murmansk, Russia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B18MHTfAv-7/?igshid=12gszuqce2zib