• Taking half of Ukraine: Episode 56

  • Sep 2 2024
  • Length: 30 mins
  • Podcast

Taking half of Ukraine: Episode 56

  • Summary

  • After the Battle of Kursk, Stalin and the Stavka set their sights on recapturing Smolensk, and farther south, the wealth of the Donbas and eastern Ukraine.

    Map 1: The Chernihiv-Poltava Offensive

    Map 2: The Red Army perspective

    I guess you have to be a Red Army officer to understand this one.

    Photos:

    Ivan Konev, Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1945

    General Nikolai Vatutin, Commander of the Voronezh Front, 1943

    Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the USSR.

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