A Russian Orthodox farmer torches his home and leaves with his dog hours before Operation Barbarossa and the Nazis invade Russia.
Categories: War
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Since Stalin was caught completely off guard by the Nazi invasion ?on June 22, 1941 in spite of warnings from his own intelligence services, ?is the farmer's "scorched earth" act and flight coincidental or did he have some premonition that the invasion was about to occur? ? What is the ?cause and effect relationship between the invasion and his flight? ?Why did he torch his home and leave?
And then what? ?Where is he headed? What becomes his objective goal, his destination?
Since Stalin was caught completely off guard by the Nazi invasion ?on June 22, 1941 in spite of warnings from his own intelligence services, ?is the farmer's "scorched earth" act and flight coincidental or did he have some premonition that the invasion was about to occur? ? What is the ?cause and effect relationship between the invasion and his flight? ?Why did he torch his home and leave?
And then what? ?Where is he headed? What becomes his objective goal, his destination?
Why?
What is his motivation to spark the flames of distraction so carelessly? It seems as if you're missing an inciting incident, likely this is the event that pushed him to burn-baby-burn the house down.
As Richiev asked, to what end? What goal does he hope to achieve?
Lastly mentioning specific military campaigns is risky as the reader may well not know the details. I would take out the name of the operation and describe it instead, otherwise the stakes are not clear - most people won't know what happened in Operation Barbarossa.