685,000 Soldiers MARCHED into Russia — Almost None Returned: What Happened?

Описание: 685,000 Soldiers MARCHED into Russia — Almost None Returned: What Happened?

685,000 men marched into Russia in 1812.
Fewer than 40,000 returned.

This is not a story about tactics, victories, or famous battles.
It is the story of how the largest army Europe had ever assembled collapsed into starvation, madness, cannibalism, and mass death—without being decisively defeated by an enemy.

Napoleon’s invasion of Russia is often framed as a military failure caused by winter. That explanation is comforting. It’s also incomplete.

What actually happened was far worse.

As supply lines disintegrated and discipline collapsed, soldiers began turning on one another. Men froze to death while standing. Entire units dissolved into mobs. Comrades murdered each other over food. Some ate the fallen. Others were murdered so they could be eaten. Civilization unraveled mile by mile along frozen roads that became corridors of corpses.

This video follows the Grande Armée from its confident march into Russia to its slow annihilation during the retreat from Moscow—through starvation, disease, psychological collapse, and abandonment. It examines what happens when power ignores warnings, when ambition overrides logistics, and when human beings are pushed beyond the limits of endurance.

This isn’t just a historical disaster.
It’s a case study in how quickly order collapses under pressure.

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