On June 24, 1812, ignoring the advice of his closest ... The next day they withdrew, leaving Napoleon proclaiming victory. Moscow was at his mercy, but the Russians refused to make peace.

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2. Stalin used War and Peace as a propaganda tool during WWII Russia’s victory over Napoleon in 1812 speaks so strongly to the Russian national psyche that when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union ...

A Russian knight hacks at a serpent depicting ... “Second Patriotic War” as World War I was known in Russia. (Napoleon’s 1812 invasion was Russia’s first “patriotic war.”) ...